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Would you turn me away if the walls were all I could see in your face?
I do somewhat resent that the first time I remember my dreams in weeks, they are nightmares about attending a convention, having to fight off a serial killer, and then contracting some kind of life-threatening alien infection, which is definitely way too high a ratio of pulp to anxiety if you ask me.
On the other hand, I spent much of the afternoon being interviewed by a grad student for her master's thesis in folklore: she is studying the music of Jewish partisans in WWII and the creation of liminal spaces through song and I felt like a one hundred and ten percent ringer and I had a wonderful time.
The recording I made for Jeannelle M. Ferreira can now be found with author's notes on her blog: "October Ghosts and Minor Resurrections: An Audio Excerpt."
The world continues fractured and frightening, but people build fires, and within the circle of the light, even if only for a little while, things may be all right.
On the other hand, I spent much of the afternoon being interviewed by a grad student for her master's thesis in folklore: she is studying the music of Jewish partisans in WWII and the creation of liminal spaces through song and I felt like a one hundred and ten percent ringer and I had a wonderful time.
The recording I made for Jeannelle M. Ferreira can now be found with author's notes on her blog: "October Ghosts and Minor Resurrections: An Audio Excerpt."
The world continues fractured and frightening, but people build fires, and within the circle of the light, even if only for a little while, things may be all right.
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I remember about twenty years ago reading about the armed Jewish resistance and finding it so HOPEFUL.
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There was a famous one that was my first exposure to many of the songs: Partisans of Vilna: The Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance (1989). More recently, we have albums like Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (2018). A Besere Velt has consistently incorporated partizanerlider into their concerts and I would love for us to do a full program thereof, but first it would need to be safe to have concerts.
I remember about twenty years ago reading about the armed Jewish resistance and finding it so HOPEFUL.
It is. And such an important part of the story to remember. Which I imagine is why I keep coming back to it, especially now.
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It counts that you're discovering him now! We sing his "Yugnt-himn" in A Besere Velt. He was a zamler as well as a writer and that matters to me.
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I've never seen it used outside of a Jewish context. It means "collector" in Yiddish, זאַמלען—it was given its current meaning in 1891 by Simon Dubnow, one of the first major Jewish historians/ethnographers of Jewish history and culture. [edit] If I saw it extended to other marginalized cultures, I would hackle much less than if it were picked up by mainstream white Christian America.
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Revisiting this question: I think these people were fucking zamlers for America. They saved the truth when they didn't know how it was going to end.
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The record matters. I am glad of your Oregonians.
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https://www.amazon.com/Partisans-Vilna-Songs-Jewish-Resistance/dp/B001076Z1A But buy the DVD if you can find, it comes with a better copy
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fight-Songs-Jewish-Partisans/dp/B0027IC28G/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=partisan+songs&qid=1603165499&sr=8-6
And there are at least two more my internet searchery is failing me at, both newer!
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I've been hunting the second of those unsuccessfully for years! Because Theodore Bikel. I . . . don't suppose you've got?
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....
....I will ask Teddy.
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Oh, my God.