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last songs were dark and omi-
nous.
Gebirtig's most famous poem is
"Sbrent" (It Burns), which he com-
posed in 1938, one year before
World War II began. He warns:
It burns, brothers dear, it burns!
Our poor little shtetl is on fire!
Furiously angry winds storm,
Madly around the whipped
flames swarm,
Ever wilder grows the fierce blaze
Everything's on fire!
And you stand around and stare
While the flames grow higher.
And you stand around and stare
While our shtetl burns.
Kids (18 and under) here's your chance to tell the world just how great your Mom
really is. In 100 words or less, tell us why your Mom deserves to win a
diamond from Tapper's Jewelry (pre-schoolers can send a drawing).
Win one of these great Prizes for your Mom!
1 ST PRIZE : 14K Gold 2 ct. tw . Diamond Tennis Bracelet.
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RD F'RIZE
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Gebirtig spent the last years of
his life in the Krakow Ghetto,
where he continued to write mu-
sic. Here is where something of a
miracle occurred: those last songs
Gebirtig wrote in the ghetto sur-
vived, and were published after
the war.
On June 4, 1942, Gebirtig, his
wife and two daughters were shot
to death by the Nazis during the
liquidation of the ghetto. Gebir-
tig was 65 years old.
For awhile, you still are here with
me.
It will cost your mother a lot of
hard work and tears
To make a man of you.
Lulinka
r
ulinka" (Hushabye) is one
of the many once-popular
songs whose composers
are now long-forgotten.
Various versions of this song
exist, though almost all begin
with a Jewish king and end sad-
ly, with a loss of love.
Once upon a time
There was a happy beginning.
But our story is sad.
There was a Jewish king,
Whose fair queen had a vineyard.
And in the vineyard, there was
a tree.
Hushabye, my little bird
Hushabye, my child.
I have lost my own true love,
Woe to me.
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will be drawn randomly from all entries.One entry per child please.
Sleep now, Yankele, my pretty
one.
The king died,
Close your little dark eyes.
The queen pined for him.
A child, still with all his teeth,
The tree branch broke,
Needs his mother to sing him to
sleep?
And the bird flew away.
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Where he will study Torah and
Talmud.
Yet still he cries while his moth-
er rocks him to sleep!
A little boy, soon to be a scholar.
How proud your father is to hear
this—
But he never lets his mother sleep
at night?
A little boy, who one day will be a
scholar,
A businessman, a bridegroom
And here lies soaking,
As though he were in a puddle?
Sleep, my scholar, my bride-
groom.
Where is the wise man
Who is able to count the stars?
And where is the doctor?
Who knows how to mend my
aching heart?
Sleep Quietly
is name was Yosef, but
everyone knew him as
"Yossele," ("Little
Joseph") — even when he at-
tained unparalleled stature as
a cantor.
Josef Rosenblatt was born in
1882 in Belaya Tserkov, Russia.
He was a mere slip of a boy when
his singing talent was recognized.
Proclaimed a child prodigy, Yos-
sele began appearing in syna-
gogues (and often leading
services) throughout Eastern Eu-
rope.
By the time he was 18, Rosen-
blatt was named cantor of the
synagogue in Mukachevo,
Poland. Then, around 1910, he
came to New York, taking a po-
sition with Ohab Zedek Congre-
gation. He lived in Harlem, then
a mecca of Jewish life and cul-
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