Reverberations of Music From the Holocaust

“Jews, have faith,” Mordechai Gebirtig , the celebrated Yiddish poet, wrote in 1940. “Revel, dance,” he pleaded: “There was once a Haman, his end awaits.” Though the Nazis would murder Gebirtig in Kraków, Poland, two years later, his songs continue to be sung today.

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