Deer Glik

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Partisan memorial in Bat Yam with the inscription drew nit keynmol, az du geyst dem lastn veg

Hirsch Glik (Pol. Hirsz Glik , born on April 24, 1922 in Vilnius , then Poland ; died in Estonia in 1944 ) was a Yiddish-speaking poet in northeast Poland and Lithuania . His poems and songs set to music are among the most famous Yiddish partisan anthems against the Nazi reign of terror.

Life

Hirsch Glik grew up in Vilnius and wrote poetry in his early youth. He was one of the youngest members of the Yung Vilne artist group . After the attack by the German Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union and the capture of Vilnius in July 1941, Glik, a member of the socialist-Zionist youth group Hashomer Hatzair , was taken to the White Guard concentration camp and later to the Vilnius ghetto with all of his fellow prisoners . There he joined the Fareinigte Partisaner Organizatzije , which smuggled food, clothing, weapons and explosives, and took part in an uprising in the ghetto in 1942. During this time he continued to write poems and song lyrics, including the most famous 1943 Yiddish partisan hymn Zog nit keynmol, az du geyst dem letstn veg - Never say you are going the last way (to a melody by Dmitri Yakovlevich Pokrass ), the Glik loud Kurt Schilde wrote in April / May 1943 in honor of the rebels in the Warsaw ghetto in a forced labor camp near Vilna. Another popular song is Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt - Still, the night is full of stars . Hirsch Glik was captured by Germany in 1944 and taken to a concentration camp in Estonia, from where he managed to escape into the surrounding forests. A short time later he fell fighting German troops at the age of 22.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Nachman Meisel published songs and lyrics by Glik in Yiddish. In 1966, Holocaust survivor and historian Meir Dworzecki published an English-language book on Glik. Glik became known to a broader German public through Lutz van Dijk's youth novel The Partisan from 1991, which deals with Glik's life.

Texts

  • Hirsh Glick: songs and poems. With an areinfir fun Nachman Meisel. Aber Press, New York 1953 (digitized, Yiddish) .

literature

Some Yiddish texts by and about Hirsch Glik are digitized from the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library in the Internet Archive .

  • Nachman Majzel: Hirsch Glick un zein song "Zog nisht keinmol". Ykuf, New York 1949 (digitized, Yiddish) .
  • Nachman Meisel: Noente un own (From Jacob Dineson to Hirsh Glick). Grenich Printing, New York 1966, chapter on Glik, pp. 362–378 (digitized, Yiddish) .
  • Meir Mark Dworzecki: Hirsch Glik. The Author of the Jewish Partisan Hymn. Paris 1966.
  • Lutz van Dijk : The partisan. The short life of Hirsch Glik. With an afterword by Esther Bejarano : “Poetry as a weapon?”. Alibaba, C. Bertelsmann Jugendbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991 (new edition Munich 2002, ISBN 3-570-30049-8 ).
  • Yehiel Szeintuch: Glik, Hirsh. In: Israel Gutman (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust . The persecution and murder of the European Jews. Volume 1. Berlin 1993, p. 544 f.
  • Anna Lipphardt: Vilne - the Jews from Vilnius after the Holocaust - a transnational relationship story . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010. Chapter 11, Zog nit keynmol, az du geyst dem lastn veg! From Vilner Resistance Song to the Jewish Transnational Hymn , pp. 293–342. Subchapter 11.1, Who Was Hirsh Glik? P. 296f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gudrun Schroeter: Words from a destroyed world. The ghetto in Wilna (= art and society. Studies on culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Volume 4). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2008, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Kurt Schilde : "Sog nit kejnmol, as you gejsst the last way". Resistance of the ghetto youth in Eastern Europe. In: ders .: Youth opposition 1933–1945. Selected contributions. With a foreword by Johannes Tuchel . Lukas, Berlin 2007, pp. 92-103, here p. 92.
  3. ↑ זאָג ניט קײנמאָל, אַז דו גײסט דעם לעצטן װעג
    YIVO : drew nit keynmol, az du geyst dem lastn veg
    IPA : zɔg nɪt kenmɔl, ɑz du gest dɛm lɛtˢtn̩ vɛg
  4. ^ Partisans of Vilna. In: Heartstrings. Music of the Holocaust. Yad Vashem (English, with lyrics and notes); Suction not kejnmol. Text and music by Hirsch Glik, in an interpretation by the folk songwriter duo Zupfgeigenhansel , YouTube video.
  5. ↑ Kurt Schilde : "Sog nit kejnmol, as you gejsst the last way". Resistance of the ghetto youth in Eastern Europe. In: ders .: Youth opposition 1933–1945. Selected contributions. With a foreword by Johannes Tuchel . Lukas, Berlin 2007, pp. 92-103, here p. 92.
  6. ↑ Gudrun Schroeter: Words from a destroyed world. The ghetto in Wilna (= art and society. Studies on culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Volume 4). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2008, p. 49.
  7. ↑ Julia Smilga: The brave girl. The story of a Yiddish partisan song. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , April 25, 2014. Shtil, die nacht is oysgeschternt , Yiddish partisan song from World War II, text and music by Hirsch Glik, interpreted by Daniel Kempin , YouTube video (accompanied by contemporary photographs, especially from the Jewish partisan struggle against Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe).
  8. ↑ According to Kurt Schilde : "Sog nit kejnmol, as you gejsst the last way". Resistance of the ghetto youth in Eastern Europe. In: ders .: Youth opposition 1933–1945. Selected contributions. With a foreword by Johannes Tuchel . Lukas, Berlin 2007, pp. 92–103, here p. 92 , there were various concentration camps.
  9. ^ Nachman Meisel, Editor and Literary Critic, Dies in Israel; Was 79. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency , April 29, 1966 (English).
  10. ↑ Boaz Cohen: Dr Meir (Mark) Dworzecki: the historical mission of a survivor historian. In: Holocaust Studies . Volume 21, 2015, pp. 24-37 (abstract) .
  11. ^ Search query with digitized Yiddish books on Glik.
personal data
SURNAME Glik, deer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Estonia