Angry Notes

‘Zog nit keynmol...' is perhaps the best-known of the Yiddish songs created during the Holocaust. It was written by the young Vilna poet Hirsh Glik, and based on a pre-existing melody by the Soviet-Jewish composer Dimitri Pokrass. Inspired by the news of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the song was adopted as the official anthem of the Vilna partisans shortly after it was composed in 1943, and spread with remarkable rapidity to other ghettos and camps. The song is powerful and defiantly optimistic, acknowledging Jewish suffering in the past and present, and urging the Jewish people to continue fighting for their survival.
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For more on the song's story and a video art piece by Haim Sokol check here:
https://partisan-jam.fhu.art/songs/zog-nit-keynmol-song
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This tune is a part pf the Partizan Jam project meant to learn with Antifascism was initiated by Free Home University together with Arkadiy Kots Band.

Arkadiy Kotz Band is a Russian combat-folk-punk collective.
Trans-European Partisan Jam is a collection of historical resistance songs from Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, France, Roma and Jewish Peoples, Greece, and USSR.

Arkadi Kots initiates this project as a new session of Free Home University in continuity with its ongoing collaboration with trade-unions, feminist, environmentalist, and migrant movements and communities, which has constituted a central focus throughout the past 10 years of the band’s activities. Arkadiy Kots considers folk music culture as a great pedagogical tool to share knowledge, express solidarity, and reinforce resistance. The translation is also an important instrument for the band, that rearranges, re-adapts, and translates songs from many places, languages, cultures, and contexts of struggles, enhancing a spirit of togetherness and a sense of unity.
This record was supported by Ecoversities Alliance