Es brent

Es brent, briderlekh, es brent.
Undzer orem shtetl, nebekh, brent!
Beyze vintn irgazon,
Brekhn, brenen un tseblozn,
Un ir shteyt un kukt,
Azoy zikh, mit farleygte hent.
Oy, ir shteyt un kukt
Azoy zikh, vi undzer shtetl brent.

Es brent, briderlekh, es brent.
Undzer orem shtetl, nebekh, brent!
Es hobn shoyn di fayertsungen
Dos gantse shtetl ayngeshlungen.
Alts arum shoyn brent,
Un ir shteyt un kukt
Azoy zikh, vi undzer shtetl brent.

Es brent, briderlekh, es brent!!
Di hilf iz nor in aykh gevent,
Az dos shtetl iz aykh tayer,
Nemt di keylim, lesht dos fayer,
Lesht dos fayer mit eygn blut,
Shteyt nit brider
Ot azoy zikh mit farleygte hent.
Shtetyt nit brider
Lesht dos fayer, vayl undzer shtetl brent.

It is burning, brothers, it is burning.
Our poor little town, a pity, burns!
Furious winds blow,
Breaking, burning and scattering,
And you stand around
With folded arms.
O, you stand and look
While our town burns.

It is burning, brothers, it is burning
Our poor little town, a pity, burns~
The tongues of fire have already
Swallowed the entire town.
Everything surrounding it is burning,
And you stand around
While our town burns.

It is burning, brothers, it is burning!
You are the only source of help.
If you value your town,
Take up the tools to put out the fire,
Put out the fire with your own blood.
Don’t just stand there, brothers,
with your arms folded.
Don’t just stand there, brothers,
Put out the fire, because our town is burning.

 

Watch over the world child

תשמור על העולם ילד
יש דברים שאסור לראות
תשמור על העולם ילד
אם תראה, תפסיק להיות
גיבור של העולם ילד
עם חיוך של מלאכים
תשמור על העולם ילד
כי אנחנו כבר לא מצליחים.

תשמור על העולם ילד
אל תגזים במחשבות
כי כמה שתדע יותר ילד
אתה רק תבין פחות
ובשעה מסוימת
נסגרות כל הדלתות
וכל האהבה נגמרת

Watch over the world child,
there are things forbidden to see’
watch over the world child,
ff you see, you’ll stop being.
The hero of the world child,
is the one with an angel’s smile;
watch over the world child,
for we no longer do succeed…

Watch over the world child,
don’t think too much;
for the more you know, child,
you only understand less.
And at a certain hour
all the doors will be shut
and all the love will finish
only you will continue to wonder…

 

The Eternal Jew

The Eternal Jew is a 1940 propaganda film. Its title in German is Der ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the “Wandering Jew” in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was directed by Fritz Hippler.  The film consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time Poland’s Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population.

The movie is done in the style of a documentary, the central thesis being the immutable racial personality traits that, according to Nazi doctrine, characterize the Jew as a wandering cultural parasite. Throughout the film, these supposed traits are contrasted to the Nazi state ideal: while Aryan men are shown to find satisfaction in physical labor and the creation of value, Jews are depicted as finding pleasure in money and a hedonist lifestyle. While members of the Aryan race live healthily, rich Jews are shown as living in bug-infested and dirty homes, even though they could afford better. While Germanic/Nordic man has an appreciation for Northern culture and imagery, Jews are alleged only to find satisfaction in the grotesque and decadent.  The film criticizes Jewish religious practices, and criticises kosher slaughtering, (shechita), as inhumane, contrasting it with Nazi laws requiring that animals be anaesthetized prior to butchering.

 

The film ends with Hitler explaining the problems of the Jewry in Europe and says:

“Should the international finance Jews inside and outside of Europe push people into another world war, the result will not be a victory for Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.” [applause][1]”

 

Unser Wille und Weg, a Nazi Party monthly aimed at propagandists provides a rationale for why The Eternal Jew was made. The author of the essay “The Film of a 2000-Year Rat Migration,[2]” who remains anonymous, believes the film shows “a full picture of Jewry,” and provides “the best treatment of this parasitic race.”
An unrepentant Fritz Hippler was interviewed in the Emmy Award winning program “The Propaganda Battle” in the PBS series Walk Through the Twentieth Century. In this interview he explains that he regrets that his name was listed as the director of The Eternal Jew because the Allies interrogated him after the war. He thought this was very unfair because, in his opinion, he had nothing to do with the killing of Jews. In an interview shown in the 2000 German documentary series Holocaust, the 90-year old Hippler described the film as “the most disgraceful example of anti-semitism.”

 

THE MOVIE CAN BE WATCHED HERE.

 

Mirel Reznic in Bucharest

Some time ago were invited in Bucharest to performed during Hanuca Nanci Brandes si Mirel Reznik.

Only now i rediscovered the clips made then in which you can see and hear the music of Mirel Reznic.

The artist was also invited in 2007 in Romania to perform at the Euroiudaica festival in Sibiu.

 

Kabalat Shabat in Bucharest

שבת

شبات

Шаббат

These are words written in different ways in different languages but they refer to the same thing: Shabat.

About the history, the tradition and  the meaning of Shabat you can read in a lot of places. 

About the way is celebrated in the synagogues from Bucharest ( 2 with daily praying services at the moment) you cannot read in a lot of places.

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Unwritten

Life is a blank page waiting to be written.
Not only Natasha says so.
Lets write something nice.

 

Od lo ahavti dai…it’s a song

 

Machol experience

Machol Ungaria, the dance seminary organized in each spring at Szarvas has reached this year its 10th edition. For every participant it is clear that the program will have a very very long life. The skills and talent of the dance teachers, the devotion and the professionalism of the organizers mixed with the enthusiasm and the joy of dancing of the participants are the precise recipe of a long and full of accomplishments life.

Hundreds of dance lovers from the entire Europe have one week in every year dedicated only to the Israeli dances. In that week all the problems step aside and from early in the morning till late in the night culminating with the marathon from the last day in which the sunrise catches the last dances, and so the charm of the dance creates for all the participants talented or not so talented a unique experience which last thought is the same for everyone “i can hardly wait to be hear the next year”.

The final evening was full of events:each country has shown in front of everybody the choreographies learned but also some surprise ones which have obtained the admiration of the entire hall,the beginners have tried to prove that the next year will be a part of the advanced classes, the teachers Oren, Ely, Kobi, Ofer si Carina were part of a surprise which was very well received especially by the feminine public and the organizers received a lot of well deserved aplauses.

Romania was admired by all through the jewish salsa show at the end of which Dana. Gabriela, Arina, Marius Erwin and Balasz from Ungaria have made all the public to applause standing .

The final represented just the beginning of counting the days remained until Machol 2009.

 

Jerusalem Day

Today is the day of Jerusalem. 41 years since it was eliberated and unified and around 6000 years since Jerusalem exists.