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"Oyfn Pripetshik" (Yiddish: אויפן פריפעטשיק, also spelled "Oyfn Pripetchik", "Oyfn Pripetchek", etc.;[note 1] English: "On the Hearth")[1] is a Yiddish song by M.M. Warshawsky (1848–1907). The song is about a rabbi teaching his young students the aleph-bet. By the end of the 19th century it was one of the most popular songs of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, and as such it is a major musical memory of pre-Holocaust Europe.[2]
The fourth stanza introduces tragic pathos into the song: "When, children, you will grow older / You will understand / How many tears lie in these letters / And how much crying."[3] The lyrics hint at the traditional Yiddish saying that "The history of the Jews is written in tears".[3]
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- ^ Walden, Joshua S. (2015). The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-1107023451.
- ^ Holocaust related music.
- ^ a b Rubin, Emanuel. Music in Jewish History and Culture. Harmonie Park Press, 2006, p. 186.