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Bidding Information
Lot #    20991
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:44:12 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Dos gesang fun Vilner geto
Title (Hebrew)    ãàñ âòæàðâ ôåï ååéìðòø âòèà
Author    Sh. Katsherginski, comp.
City    [Paris]
Publisher    Farband fun di vilner in Frankeykh
Publication Date    1947
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 50, [2] p. ill. music 315:244 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A good copy bound as issued.
          
Paragraph 1    A collection of songs from the Vilna ghetto, gathered and arranged by Shmerke [Shemaryohu] Katsherginski (1908-1954).
          
Detailed
Description		    The well-known Jewish partisan, poet, and collector Shmerke Katsherginski wrote soon after the war that the songs would help future generations ‘to fathom the soul of our people’. They reveal to us the kinds of things that Jews thought about their fellow inmates or those who held power over them, the shattering realities about which they sang to their unknowing children, how they tried to distract themselves with memories of home or dreams of freedom, how they tried to make sense of or play down what they were experiencing through humor or denial, how they wanted to remember what their lives had been, and how they imagined they would be remembered. The songs help us think about the victims as human beings, unsure of what was happening to them, full of intersecting and conflicting wishes, hopes, fears, and predictions. Perhaps most importantly, they allow us to remember Holocaust victims in the context of the rich and diverse experiences they represented, and not only the mechanized process of their destruction.
          
Reference
Description		    http://www.create-on.com/images/cjs/gilbert_CSO_article.pdf
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
France:    Checked
  
Subject
Music:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica