The song:
Participants in the "Undzer Yiddishland" project sing the new Yiddish song composed by Roman Grinberg.
This song won the competition for the best new Yiddish song carried out among all project participants and was published on the first jointly produced CD.
The Project "Undzer Yiddishland"
Fourteen leading singers, all originally from the USSR, have joined forces to form a new project at the initiative of Roman Grinberg.
“We are driven by a longing for the old homeland and the old Yiddish songs that we remember from our childhood. We are impelled by a strong desire to write and sing new songs in our mame-loshn (mother tongue). This has united us, the children of Yiddishland.”
The story behind
During the first lockdown at the time of the corona pandemic, when the world seemed to stand still for a while and musicians were not able to perform to their audience, the international project Yiddish Song: Step Forverts was launched on the initiative of Polina Shepherd and Efim Chorny.
More than 40 leading Yiddish singers and activists from all over the world took part and presented their musical creativity and diversity in a series of living room concerts online.
Fourteen of those singers, all originally from USSR, have produced their first collaborative album, created in partnership with the international Festival of Arts Sholom-Aleikhem GALA. Undzer Yiddishland is a colourful bouquet of wonderful and diverse songs, voices, genres and personalities.
The lyrics:
Undzer Yiddishland
Music and lyrics by Roman Grinberg, Oct. 2020
1. Faranen zenen lider sheyne oyf der gantser velt,
A yeder zinger zingt fun dem, vos im aleyn gefelt.
Nor haynt veln mir ineynem zingen - dos iz take khidesh.
Mir makhn a „step forverts“ mit a nayem lid in yiddish.
Chorus:
Yiddishland, Yiddishland - ale zenen mir dayne kinder.
Yiddishland, Yiddishland - khotsh tseshpreyt lebn mir bazinder.
Mayriv, mizrakh, tsofn, dorem - lebn mir nit raykh, nit orem,
Makhn oyf der velt bakant undzer Yiddishland.
Makhn oyf der gantser velt bakant undzer Yiddishland.
2. Es benkt zikh tog un nakht aheym nokh di alte tsaytn,
Nokh di taykhn, nokh di velder, nokh der feldns vaytn,
Nokh dem shtetl, nokh dem hayzl, nokh di tayre fraynt.
Undzre lider trogn mir fun demolts in dos haynt.
Chorus: Yiddishland, Yiddishland ...
3. Es iz a naye velt gevorn, a naye tsayt gekumen,
Nor Mame-loshn hot zayn plats in hartsn tif farnumen.
Afile kinder zingen haynt af yiddish naye lider,
Un mir veln zingen oykh far aykh in Mame-loshn vider:
Chorus: Yiddishland, Yiddishland ...
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