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Oy Zionists

from A Little Letter by Brivele

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lyrics

Oy, ir narishe tsionistn
Mit ayer narishn meykhl
Ir makh dokh geyn tsu dem arbeter
Un lernen bay im seykhl!
Ir vilt undz forn keyn Yerushalaim!
Mir zaln dortn golodayen
Mir viln beser zayn in Rus[n]land,
Mir veln zikh bafrayen!

Oh you foolish little Zionists
With your utopian mentality
You'd better go down to the factory
And learn the worker's reality.
You want to take us to Jerusalem
So we can die as a nation
We'd rather stay in the Diaspora
And fight for our liberation

Глупенькие сионисты,
Вы такие утописты.
Вы бы лучше шли в рабочие
Или в трубочисты.
В Иерушалаим
Идти за вами не желаем,
Мы в Рассее останемся -
Бороться с Николаем!
Мы в рассеяньи останемся -
Бороться с Николаем!

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from A Little Letter, released May 25, 2018
Arranged by Brivele, translations by Daniel Kahn (English) and Psoy Korolenko (Russian).

Socialist folksong first recorded November 26, 1930 in Kiev by ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski (1892–1961), as
sung by house painter Ts. Lachman (Ц. Лахман) Gersh of Medzhybozhe (Ukraine).

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Brivele Seattle, Washington

A discontented punky-klezy trio of Yiddishists.

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Stefanie Brendler (accordion, vox, glockenspiel, slide whistle)
Maia Brown (banjo, vox)
Hannah Hamavid (violin, ukulele, vox)
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