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The Massacred Poets' Night: on the night of October 29–30, 1937, twelve eminent Belarusian literati were executed by Stalin's secret police (NKVD) in the Minsk outskirts. On that night, Yiddish literature lost Moyshe Kulbak and Izi Kharik. Here's a glimpse of Zisl Slepovitch's new vocal cycle, SYLL-ABLE - Soviet Yiddish Literati, set to the poetry of Moyshe Kulbak, Izi Kharik and Zelik Akselrod. English translation by Shane Baker.
The project has been generously funded by Asylum Arts and Schusterman Family Foundation; this concert on August 12, 2018, was presented by Kultur-Kongres – Congress for Jewish Culture.

VESNEDIKS - SPRINGISH (Moyshe Kulbak)

S’lign breyt, s’lign groys mayne borvese trit
Af dem feld af dem shvartsn,
S’iz mayn layb ot di erd.
Kh’bin a rozove lid
Fun ir hartsn.
Shtromik khlipet mayn hungeriker gang inderfri.
Kh’shpreyt fanander di hent.
Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la!
S’hot di shtralike velt nit keyn vent.
Hey, ahinter di fis, vos tsetretn mikh,
A loyb tsu dem shikern lebn...
Ikh shprayz un ikh lakh in a yetvider tir:
Hot ir gornit gezen?
Hot ir gornit gehert?
S’hot di velt zikh mir untergegebn...

Big and broad my barefoot steps spread
over the black field.
It’s my body, that earth.
I am a glowing song
from its heart.

My hungry bearing bursts out
Weeping in the morning.
I spread out my hands.
Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la!
The beaming world has no walls.

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