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wrote this song in the Ghetto of Vilna (Vilnius) on the first anniversary of the revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto. "Among the ruins of the Ghetto, the Jews are in battle. A Jew attacks in the midst of smoke and flames...Revenge! He assaults into the night. Revenge in the name of the children, the fathers and the mothers! This piece opens Dorfman’s song cycle in memory of the Holocaust. Part III: Yiddish and Hebrew Folklore - N Hungerik dein Ketzkele (Hungry, my kitten) Text and Melody: Yiddish folk song. Arr. by Friedbert Gross (1937 -) Alto, choir and piano A mother, who does not have the means to feed her little son, sings a lullaby to him. She teils him not to cry or whine, but to be quiet like the kitten, the puppet and mother herseif. Sleep makes one forget all troubles. Friedbert Gross, who wrote the arrangement for the Leipziger Synagogalchor, is a composer, arranger and a well known professor of composition. He has also engaged in politics and served as the Minister of Culture of the State of Saxony. Gross's arrangement style is based on an intimate knowledge of the choir voice, a knowledge that he acquired in his youth, when he sang as choir boy in the famous Kreutzchor in Dresden. He is also masterful in harmonic technique and rieh instrumental accompaniment. Ani haddal (I am the poor man) Text: R. Shalem Shabbazzi Melody, Yemenite Jewish folk tune. Arr.: Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959) Choir a Capella The poem, by the dean of Yemenite Jewish poets, describes the Jew's longing for God and for redemption. The Yemenite Jews sing the poem with a florid melody, mainly during the nuptial meal. Lazare Saminsky, one of the founders of the St. Peterburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in the beginning of the 20th Century, believed that the Yemenite melody was one of the most important Jewish musical expressions and that it contained some of the oldest elements of the national music, going back even to the times of the Temple. In 1921 he arranged the melody for choir with an attampt to preserve its original flavor and at the same time to use its elements for building modern Jewish music. Itzikl hot chassene gehat (Itzikl got married) Words and melody: Yiddish folk song. Arr.: Werner Sander Baritone, choir and piano The song pokes fun of Itzikl who got married while he had no cent in his pocket. He has no bread, no meat, and the bride is not a beauty either. Nobody forced him, but he himself dug his own pit. 8 Yome, Yome shpil mir a lidele (Yome, Yome, play me a song) Words and melody: Yiddish folk song. Arr. Werner Sander Alto, choir and piano A mother asks Yome (short for Benjamin) the Klezmer to play a song that would describe what her growing up daughter desires. Does she want clothes, shoes, jewelry? The daughter denies all of these until mother understands that the daughter needs a bridegroom and one has to go to the matchmaker. Werner Sander, the founder of the Leipziger Synagogalchor, arranged the song for the choir. Sander was born in Breslau and was a well known choirmaster in his home town. In 1943 he was deported by the Nazis to hard-labor camps, which he survived. After the war he served for a while as choirmaster in Meiningen and in 1953 he became Chief Cantor of Leipzig. In this capacity he also served as a spiritual leader for the small Jewish community that survived there and he conducted performances of oratorios, such as Mendelssohn's “Elijah". In 1962 he