A few weeks ago I discovered a beautiful song, written in a language very unknown to the general public and that emerged from a real hell.<\/p>\n
\"Zog nit kein mol\" (Never say) was written in Yiddish - the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews in Central Europe - by a young Polish Jewish poet, Hirsh Glick<\/strong> (1922-1944), born in Vilnius, now the capital of Lithuania and then part of the Republic of Poland. The song was written when he was interned in the Vilna Ghetto, in 1943, and was inspired by<\/strong> the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising<\/a>, which began on April 19 of that year. For the music he took the sheet music of the Soviet song \"Terskaya pokhodnaya\" (March of Terek)<\/strong>, composed by the Ukrainian Jew Dmitry Pokrass and sung by the Cossack horsemen of the Red Army.<\/p>\n Glick's song became a hymn for the partisans of the Jewish resistance against nazism<\/strong>, and today it is played in many tributes to the victims of the Holocaust. Despite the dire circumstances in which it was written, its beautiful lyrics are a hymn to hope, not without a certain melancholy.<\/strong> Sadly, its author never knew the fame that the song achieved: after escaping from a German concentration camp in Estonia in 1944, Glick was never heard from again.<\/strong> The most common theory is that he was captured and killed by the Germans.<\/p>\n You can hear here \"Zog nit kein mol\" sung by the Israeli singer of Polish origin Chava Alberstein:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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