This song expresses the longing for Jewish life in Bălţi, Bessarabia. The words were written by the actor Jacob Jacobs (1892-1972), and the melody composed by Alexander Olshanetsky (1892-1946), who wrote scores for plays and operettas in the vibrant Yiddish theater world on New York's Second Avenue. The song was written in 1932 for the play Ghetto Song (Yiddish) as a tribute to the famous singer Isa Kremer, born in Bălţi, who was probably the first to perform it.
This song brings me back to sitting on my Grandma Rothman's lap while she sang this and other songs to me when I was 3 years old. What wonderful memories.
my friend according to the proof forwarded by daniel jonah goldhagen in his masterpiece " hitler's willing executioners" murderers were germans among them nazis too which doesn't mean germans now are the same at all. no mistake, i'm no jew but jew lover and i've my reasons: hebrew is God's language; jews invented the alphabet thus hebrew is both morally and in every sense is the mother tongue of all languages having an alphabet; the very word alphabet is taken from hebrew.
There is a CD entitled Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden. It is a live performance on Broadway in which Fisher performs one of the great renditions of this song in both Yiddish and English. Eddie mentions before singing it that this was the first song he ever learned.
Believe me, I'm compelled to listen to this every day. I get the nostalgic feeling of going home at dusk.. It really tugs at my heart! Thanks alot for this video.
Loss and grief mixed with trauma ...this is a song that lived in the hearts of those who returned to Poland from Russia, only to find their enitre families were gone, their homes were occupied by strangers, and their shtetls were devoid of the life they once new.
Balti is a city in Republic of Moldova, fomerly the Besserabia region of Romania.
The song is part of the Romanian nostalgic musicology style called "Doina", reminiscing on the happier times of (in this case) Romanian-Jews in the country of origin.
Please also see Rumania Rumania, and Besserabia composed and performed by Jewish diaspora musicians in Yddish, with Romanian folkloric overtones.
I am from Bessarabian/Moldovan Beltsy. In Romanian it is Bălţi (sounds close to Belts, Belz). Russian Бельцы (close to Beltsy). Yiddish בעלץ.
It had a very large Jewish community, at times over 50% of population. A lot suffered during the WW2. Big Jewish community through Russian Empire and Soviet Union. In 1990's still could hear Yiddish on the streets. By now most Jewish immigrated to Israel, US, Germany. Only 1 synagogue left and few older people.
Mein shteitele Belts it is completely correct. The song was written about Belts in Bessarabia and not the Galician Belz (and the Belzer Chasidim). Sorry for Poland, but that's the true. The towns actually is in Moldova and in Rumanian is called Beltzy.
Belz is small town (not more than 5.000 people) in Sokal district of Lviv region of the westernmost part of Ukraine. In 1910 Jews comprised 60 % of population of Belz.
I have no idea why at the beginning of video there is mistake in the name of town. Correct i s Belz. No belts. No beltz.
Only Belz for foreigners. In Polish it is written Bełz, spoken Bewz. B like b in Barbara, E - like E in belt. W - like w in window. Z - like in zip code.
This is easily the best version of this wonderful old song, and the musical arrangement is wonderful too! And Ilex Beller's artwork is superb. Thank you so much for this little gem!
Por favor, alguien me puede mandar la traduccion en español? la necesito para una presentacion que trata sobre la inmigracion en general. A mi me toca hablar sobre la judía como tal. Gracias, desde Gualeguaychu
The song is from the Yiddish Theater on Second Avenue; it's typical of the sort of theatrical set piece that was a nastalgia number, like Ellstein's Vus iz gevorn fun mayn steteleh, Lebedeff's Roumania or for that matter, Galitsyeh!
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@Evrilmann No. It's not town in Poland. Everybody think that it's polish town, but no. In pre-war Poland we had town Bełz, but it's not song about this town. "Mein shtetele Belz" is about Bălţi (Bielce in polish) in Moldovia. Author of this song, Jacob Jacobs, was from Bălţi and in yiddish transcription Belts mean Bălţi.
Why the fuck do i have to read a discussion about Israel on a blog that posts a video that has nothing...really nothing to do with modern conflicts...cant you spare your arguments for moments where they are appropriate and not misplaced...seriously...the fact that some people are so narrow minded they believe judaism and israel to be one and the same thing is truly starting to piss me off
@leonardsandow The "F" word rarely adds much to a conversation, and it's irrelevant what does or doesn't "piss you off." Things have their own reality regardless of your state of "pisseditude." Judaism and Israel ARE one and the same. Not every Jew has to agree everything Israel does, but not to recognize the centrality of Israel to modern Jewish life is to live in a dream. Oh, and more importantly, this is a beautiful song, beautifully rendered.
My Uncle met my Aunty when he and his troop liberated a slave labour camp. As time went by, all her family were discovered to have perished in ghettos and camps in Poland and Germany.
Hamas are closely linked to the terrorist organisations who killed the people in the Twin Towers and in London and also there are Bali and the other bombing outrages. These people, Hamas, have no regard for human life not even their own people.
I agree Hamas needs annialation. Hamas is part of something known as the Muslim brotherhood project, or movement, closely affliated with Hitler's ideals, and the Nazi's, and their shared hatred of JEWs, the ignorance and hate, especailly by a religious doctrine hammered into their minds, based on hate of Jews, and all others, is a big part of the problem.
My uncle met my aunty when he and his group liberated a slave labour camp. Her family were found to have perished in ghettos and camps throughout Poland and Germany.
Hamas are linked to the terrorist organisations that destroyed the twin towers and set off the bombs in Londonn as well as Bali. They h
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The situation in Gaza is no different than what the NAZIS DID IN THE JEWISH GHETTO IN WARSAW: A group of people blockaded all around by the state who exercises effective control over them in an open-air prison.
Israeli fascists claiming that Israel is "defending" itself sound as humane and just as Nazi SS officers who would claim "but those Jews are throwing stones at us from inside the ghetto!" before they fired back and killed 300+ Jews under that so-called "excuse".
Anti semitism 101... what an ignorant comparison...
The next thing you would want the world to believe is that Hamas is a "peace loving" organization that wants to live side by side in peace with the State of Israel. GIVE US A BREAK! The IDF goes out of it way to reduce civilian...casualties more than any other country even at the risk of its own soldiers...just keep talking you help reinforce the fact that people like you still exist...
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"just keep talking you help reinforce the fact that people like you still exist" mwag1267
You keep talking like that & you will be parading the fact that the United States needs a major education reform & that people who cannot speak decently shouldn't comment on MidEast peace
I hope you are not misunderestimating me?? :))
Now go get your head out of your ass, learn decent English, pick a book on intl law and realize that what Israel is doing are war crimes and crimes against humanity...
Was that directed at me? I am sorry, you must be confusing me with someone else, because I am not Muslim.
So I take it from the ad hominims that you are unconciously admitting that you are not able to address REAL content, in other words the WAR CRIMES and the APARTHEID that the FASCIST STATE OF ISRAEL is committing right now.
I mean the number of Jews themselves who have compared Gaza to the WARSAW GHETTO is staggering - how are you going to try to denigrate THEM?? :))
My bitch grandmother tried to hide her (and my father's) past, trying to pass as a catholic... Yet there are so many Jews in Poland, that she (and my grandpa) went almost all her life in this concealment.
And I was wondering why I never fit with Catholics in Poland, hehe...
I think you need to try and understand your grandmother's intentions. After the Holocaust,some Jews just wanted to forget that they were Jews, as they felt that being Jewish only brought trouble. They were mistaken, and their decision is tragic, but we must try to understand why people did this, and judge them favourably.
Please don't judge your grandmother. To be a Jew in Poland was to die. I don't fit in with the Catholics either but for different reason, my mother converted and my father came from the old country. What matters at the end of the day is whether you are a good person. The past is the past.
@als20008 "Please don't judge your grandmother." - I need to clear this! That word shouldn't have slipped there. It was a personal opinion.
I'd just like to dedicate this song to all those blind idiots that happen to live in Poland (not so many, though!) and who don't understand that Polish culture is much higher than it would otherwise be... without Jews.
Stop it! You should be ashamed! Even after the war there was still very great prejudice in Poland against the Jewish people. Survivors who tried to return to their homes were threatened, beaten and could be murdered. You have only an idea how dangerous it was, particularly for a woman! Your grandmother was just trying to survive in the only way she knew how .. to hide her past. Please, do not judge her so harshly!
carrotjuse: Prejudice? What prejudice? I lived in Western Poland, where antisemitism is smaller than in US or Canada (where I also lived). Pogroms? That's in Kielce or Bialystok, these places are nowadays called "Polska B".
Bullshit, LMB222. Unless you were living there in 1946 you dont have a clue. The history of discrimination against Jews after the war has been well documented by historians and by first-person accounts. Anyway, my point is that you need to rid yourself of your anger against your grandmother who managed to survive the most dangerous period for Jews in human history, when simply being Jewish meant that you lived in fear. She should be honored as a survivor of that period.
And Jagna4444... you have got some serious issues... All the polish people killed by the Jews? Tell us who authored the history book youv'e been reading? Unbelievable...
With all due respect "Jagna" If nothing else, this song is reflective of the historical fact that the jews of the shtetele were simple and peace loving... just wanting to live their lives without fear.
Also mwag, it was Stalin who ordered Jews to kill the Polish people. It's a well known historical fact. jews like any other nation are not morally spotless. We are just humans. And humans are not perfect.
carrotjuse, I told you the phenomenon is largerly geographical. Where I lived there was no such thing - at least not to the extent you're suggesting.
And as for my grandmother, I had clarified that already: the words I used referred to her character, not the fact that she hid her past and tried to be a devout catholic (which is stoll, sorry, pathetic for me).
There will always be people how will hate Jews all over the word... Those who say that Israelian kill Palestinian just don't know the real situation. Poor Palestinian are manipulate and oppessed by dirigeant of Hamas, so if some people soutain Hamas.. THEY are making a crime!!
I'm amazed, that a folk song about someone's little village with purely nostalgic lyrics brings out such racist whacos and murderous words. Those folks should get a therapist, and stay away from you tube for a while. Saludos a todos!
I think Connie Francis sang this on her 50's album of Yiddish music. And btw, anyone who thinks my medical life with its life and death decisions is anyone's business but mine has a rock where a brain should be.
why are the people who don´t like jews ar jiddish thning on youtube klick it if you hate thm so much than just stay away fromt his , and bye the way killing poor palistnian yes ok but if palestina attacks isral what do they have to do they have to proted theri country and well if peoeple die sure its sad but do any palestinian think of the jewish babys ????????????
All I know is that I want peace, Anybody who doesnt want peace, or wants to fuck with the jews, I will personally Rape their mothers, and kill their children
hmmmm racist?? what is racist about abortion??? these women aren't racists either....they kill children without thinking of race, religion or sexual preferences....run out of descriptive words?
My ancesters on my father's father side were from Bessarabia. Fortunately they emigrated to the US before the terrible pograms of the first few years of the 20th century.
The "Belz" referred in this song is a small village or shtetel in Bessariabia , near Kishinev (modern day Moldova, Chisinau) ... NOT the city in Ukraine/Poland.
True. My greatgrandmother was born there, according to the ones who lived there this song referres to the shtetel, not the city. Anyhow its a wonderful, yet a little "schmaltzy" song , in a great song tradition.Anyone, nomatter what etnecity or religion who has lost their home can relate to it, I believe. Thanks for posting it!!
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YonaArieFeinberg 3 weeks ago
Thank you for information abour the town. Had no idea about that.
KrzysztofvGazeta 1 month ago
Ai jai jai Belz, mein Schtätele Belz, mein Häjmale dort wo ich hob meine kindersche Johrn verbracht. Biste gewehn einmol in Belz... Beautiful!!!
Elwetritsch007 1 month ago
Wow !!!! What a good song. Art work tells the story and melody mirrors nostalgia...what a good piece of music. Ican'stop listening to it
MsManatee1 1 month ago
Nice. Appealing artwork, too.
URLy2Rise 2 months ago
How is "animation" or "cartoon" in yiddish anyway?
Atvishees 3 months ago
Ilex not Alex
namza94 5 months ago
Love This... Thanks...
DebraHanover 7 months ago
What is the name of the artist who did this amazing, fantastic art work -- Alex Beller?
cjprentiss1 7 months ago
This song expresses the longing for Jewish life in Bălţi, Bessarabia. The words were written by the actor Jacob Jacobs (1892-1972), and the melody composed by Alexander Olshanetsky (1892-1946), who wrote scores for plays and operettas in the vibrant Yiddish theater world on New York's Second Avenue. The song was written in 1932 for the play Ghetto Song (Yiddish) as a tribute to the famous singer Isa Kremer, born in Bălţi, who was probably the first to perform it.
eel1452 7 months ago
wenn ich hier dieses Lied, das ich von meinem poppa denken, bringt es zu zerreißen, um mein Auge. Belz meine shtetele, oy solche Musik
normx9 8 months ago
This song brings me back to sitting on my Grandma Rothman's lap while she sang this and other songs to me when I was 3 years old. What wonderful memories.
tobetta 9 months ago
splendid but alas reminds a tragedy committed by monsters!
mahvachcheidani 9 months ago
The Yiddish is in your hearts. Be well.
inkychinkychinaman 9 months ago 2
who is the artist of the beautiful pictures?
jeremygoldscheider1 10 months ago
Fajny stary swiat, dobre czasy ktore juz sie skonczyly
MalgosCanada 10 months ago
I came across this by accident. My family lived in Belz... and they were murdered by the Nazis. None of us can understand Yiddish anymore.
EgoNamahaNemoRex 10 months ago
@EgoNamahaNemoRex
my friend according to the proof forwarded by daniel jonah goldhagen in his masterpiece " hitler's willing executioners" murderers were germans among them nazis too which doesn't mean germans now are the same at all. no mistake, i'm no jew but jew lover and i've my reasons: hebrew is God's language; jews invented the alphabet thus hebrew is both morally and in every sense is the mother tongue of all languages having an alphabet; the very word alphabet is taken from hebrew.
mahvachcheidani 9 months ago
NOBODY SINGS LIKE HIM
LAJARIFKA 1 year ago
I've never heard this version but I've heard the song many times...
shmuli9 1 year ago
@MrEriugena The 'e' at the end of a word, means 'small' ; Young ; Lovely ; Dear
nathany03 1 year ago
Zgadza się, Belz - po polsku Bielce, a po rumuńsku Balti to miasto na północy Mołdawii. Choć może tu chodzić o inne miasto rzecz jasna :)
buziaku 1 year ago
piękne piosenki
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MiCheell3 1 year ago
Wonderful song and even better artwork.
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Camdentown100 1 year ago
Belz was a little city in Poland bevore II world war
karol1111b 1 year ago
Bels this is little city Bełz in Poland bevore II world war
karol1111b 1 year ago
@karol1111b however it located in Moldova
calatis4u 1 year ago
@calatis4u BALTI it is in east RUMANIA or the so called Moldova. ro is great!!!!!!!!!!
calatis4u 1 year ago
There is a CD entitled Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden. It is a live performance on Broadway in which Fisher performs one of the great renditions of this song in both Yiddish and English. Eddie mentions before singing it that this was the first song he ever learned.
CarlDuke 1 year ago
très historique. je kiffe
malkalaustriat 1 year ago
please look for the key word "Bels" in Wikipedia" Chris Gerer
1Gerer 1 year ago
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1Gerer 1 year ago
Beautiful paintings. Like a Yiddish Grandma Moses.
DCFunBud 1 year ago
Mazel Tov !
Great song
Yochananable 1 year ago
Believe me, I'm compelled to listen to this every day. I get the nostalgic feeling of going home at dusk.. It really tugs at my heart! Thanks alot for this video.
arlma 1 year ago
I loved the accompanying artwork!!
preppy1953 1 year ago
Awesome version.TY for posting!
paulostroff99 1 year ago
I'm trying to guess when this was recorded... late '70s, early '80s?
Check out the 1928 version on archive dot org..
regusted 1 year ago
@MrEriugena שטעטל (shtetl) is neuter (according to yiddishdictionaryonline)
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einfach nur gut !!!!
solarisman 1 year ago
The Painter is Ilex Beller
paginade 1 year ago
Loss and grief mixed with trauma ...this is a song that lived in the hearts of those who returned to Poland from Russia, only to find their enitre families were gone, their homes were occupied by strangers, and their shtetls were devoid of the life they once new.
pozman1954 1 year ago
@MrEriugena.... das, it means "it" . Der (masculine), die (feminine),
das (neutral ?). So, according to your explanation its neutral.
Hope it makes sense to you.
mutti33 1 year ago
Very nice. You should hear Eddie Fisher's version in Yiddish and English on his CD Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden, it is just great.
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Balti is a city in Republic of Moldova, fomerly the Besserabia region of Romania.
The song is part of the Romanian nostalgic musicology style called "Doina", reminiscing on the happier times of (in this case) Romanian-Jews in the country of origin.
Please also see Rumania Rumania, and Besserabia composed and performed by Jewish diaspora musicians in Yddish, with Romanian folkloric overtones.
Romanisipunctum 1 year ago
Whose paintings are those? Are they by Marc Chagall?
dwakroki 2 years ago
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ugly jews by j.lebowitz
kobietheonlyone 1 year ago
I am from Bessarabian/Moldovan Beltsy. In Romanian it is Bălţi (sounds close to Belts, Belz). Russian Бельцы (close to Beltsy). Yiddish בעלץ.
It had a very large Jewish community, at times over 50% of population. A lot suffered during the WW2. Big Jewish community through Russian Empire and Soviet Union. In 1990's still could hear Yiddish on the streets. By now most Jewish immigrated to Israel, US, Germany. Only 1 synagogue left and few older people.
crosseachgap 2 years ago 2
ברוך אתה יהוה אלוהינו מלך העולם שלא עשני בעלז?
BrooklynNotQueens 2 years ago
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subramaniam5 2 years ago
These paintings look peaceful.
Love the sunny ones.
phase866 2 years ago
Mein shteitele Belts it is completely correct. The song was written about Belts in Bessarabia and not the Galician Belz (and the Belzer Chasidim). Sorry for Poland, but that's the true. The towns actually is in Moldova and in Rumanian is called Beltzy.
mordechaigelman 2 years ago
@mordechaigelman
This is not true
aishtof 2 years ago
Belz is small town (not more than 5.000 people) in Sokal district of Lviv region of the westernmost part of Ukraine. In 1910 Jews comprised 60 % of population of Belz.
zakharii 2 years ago
lyrics please!
binnun 2 years ago
Who made the paintings?
GeneralPaccepa 2 years ago
I have no idea why at the beginning of video there is mistake in the name of town. Correct i s Belz. No belts. No beltz.
Only Belz for foreigners. In Polish it is written Bełz, spoken Bewz. B like b in Barbara, E - like E in belt. W - like w in window. Z - like in zip code.
KrzysztofvGazeta 2 years ago 3
@KrzysztofvGazeta
It's a song about the moldavian city of Bălți (pol. Bielce) not about the polish city Bełz! In rumanian language it also pronounced "Belts".
Elwetritsch007 1 month ago
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Poland - Paradisus Iudaeorum. Then GERMAN nazis came and murdered all of them. Shame on you sayin about similarity of German and Yiddish language...
mateusio 2 years ago
Wow, what a beautiful song...and i didnt know that the yiddish language is so close to german... :) Shalom!
MalikArt 2 years ago 6
Can I get the audio of this song? It's a beautiful version & thanks so much for posting!
mport09 2 years ago 2
ברוך אתה יהוה אלוהינו מלך העולם שלא עשני ליובאוויטשער!
BrooklynNotQueens 2 years ago 2
you are an apikores, no god fearing yid would waste his time like you do with all the nasty and mean comments. i wish you a refua shloima.
Partos89 2 years ago 3
because he thinks that Hashem is the father of him and not the other guy, he is saying that there is more than one god
100flyingfish 2 years ago
What a fuckin LADY...
Myriam Fuks.Abs fantastic.
Shalom alechem
arklow111 2 years ago
אַלט־דײַטשיש !!! :)))))
FredStandard 2 years ago
0:45 - 0:50 wow! absolut grossartig! :)
ChrischanJunk 2 years ago 2
Fisher is goob but Benzon Witler was even better. Thank you for my mothers favorite song.
LAJARIFKA 2 years ago
echh.. ostatni obraz aż chwyta za serce i sumienie... oby to już nigdy się nie powtórzyło.. a jak ma się powtórzyć to niech zginie cała ludzkośc...
plkMisiek 2 years ago 2
This is easily the best version of this wonderful old song, and the musical arrangement is wonderful too! And Ilex Beller's artwork is superb. Thank you so much for this little gem!
nilinu 2 years ago 2
My childhood! thanks a lot for those beautifeul memories!
charlessand 2 years ago 2
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nilinu 2 years ago
DUDU FISHER SINGS THAT
LAJARIFKA 2 years ago
Sung by.....?
ddobro2 2 years ago
Scheenes lied :)
ChrischanJunk 2 years ago
Szkoda, ze już nie ma tego świata....
KrasnjeWorota 2 years ago 22
piękne.........
tolotr 2 years ago 4
Por favor, alguien me puede mandar la traduccion en español? la necesito para una presentacion que trata sobre la inmigracion en general. A mi me toca hablar sobre la judía como tal. Gracias, desde Gualeguaychu
saritakesselman 2 years ago
Ahhh...Thank you SO MUCH for this song.. I've been looking for it :-)
lanarv 2 years ago
If it's the same belz as the hassidim, then it's now in the Uklraine.
Cantormatis 2 years ago
The song is from the Yiddish Theater on Second Avenue; it's typical of the sort of theatrical set piece that was a nastalgia number, like Ellstein's Vus iz gevorn fun mayn steteleh, Lebedeff's Roumania or for that matter, Galitsyeh!
Cantormatis 2 years ago
Was bedeutet das denn?
Mein irgendwas...
azmhyr 2 years ago
@azmhyr Mein geliebter Beltz (ein Dorf)
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JusticeVSpropaganda 2 years ago
Shalom, 1000 mal Shalom
und vielen, vielen dank fürs hochladen dieses liedes
peace as wien
Meskal2612 2 years ago 3
isnt it Moldavian Belts (Balti)?
avramENKO100 2 years ago
I have a request. I can't find lyrics in yiddish. Could someone send me it?
oblivious15 2 years ago
ay ay ay Belts
Mayn shteytele Belts,
mayn heymele dort vu ikh hob meyne kindersheyorn farbrakht.
IchWerdeSterben111 2 years ago
it's like I'm watching images from Serbia...
jaleksandra 2 years ago
I love this song. Who is the singer ?
servitrad 2 years ago
i believe its dudu fisher
mtlguy87 2 years ago
David (Dudu) Fischer
cooldood1025 2 years ago
Isnt it about Bełz, a polish city which is now in Ukraine?
sentofelice 2 years ago 3
Yes, it's polish city in pre-war. one from hundreds of similar small towns before the war in Poland.
Evrilmann 2 years ago 10
@Evrilmann
the song is about the city of Balti (Belts in Yiddish), a city formerly in Romania, now in the Republic of Moldova.
kamasis 11 months ago 2
@Evrilmann well polish till 1951...ech szkoda
MarcoBocoure 9 months ago 2
@Evrilmann No. It's not town in Poland. Everybody think that it's polish town, but no. In pre-war Poland we had town Bełz, but it's not song about this town. "Mein shtetele Belz" is about Bălţi (Bielce in polish) in Moldovia. Author of this song, Jacob Jacobs, was from Bălţi and in yiddish transcription Belts mean Bălţi.
FrauRetro 8 months ago 2
I was born there...
bermasix 2 years ago
Whose painings are these? They are incredible!
Kurtlane 2 years ago
Ich kann es nur immer wieder sagen, ich liebe dieses lied.
danke fürs hochladen
Peace/ Shalom
Meskal2612 3 years ago
Why the fuck do i have to read a discussion about Israel on a blog that posts a video that has nothing...really nothing to do with modern conflicts...cant you spare your arguments for moments where they are appropriate and not misplaced...seriously...the fact that some people are so narrow minded they believe judaism and israel to be one and the same thing is truly starting to piss me off
leonardsandow 3 years ago
Leonard, I agree with you 100%.
Shalom - Salam
amystattoo 2 years ago
Thank You! I totally agree!
sternele1 2 years ago
@leonardsandow The "F" word rarely adds much to a conversation, and it's irrelevant what does or doesn't "piss you off." Things have their own reality regardless of your state of "pisseditude." Judaism and Israel ARE one and the same. Not every Jew has to agree everything Israel does, but not to recognize the centrality of Israel to modern Jewish life is to live in a dream. Oh, and more importantly, this is a beautiful song, beautifully rendered.
busterbobby 3 months ago
My Uncle met my Aunty when he and his troop liberated a slave labour camp. As time went by, all her family were discovered to have perished in ghettos and camps in Poland and Germany.
Hamas are closely linked to the terrorist organisations who killed the people in the Twin Towers and in London and also there are Bali and the other bombing outrages. These people, Hamas, have no regard for human life not even their own people.
yumyummoany 3 years ago
I agree Hamas needs annialation. Hamas is part of something known as the Muslim brotherhood project, or movement, closely affliated with Hitler's ideals, and the Nazi's, and their shared hatred of JEWs, the ignorance and hate, especailly by a religious doctrine hammered into their minds, based on hate of Jews, and all others, is a big part of the problem.
Thunderwavia 3 years ago
My uncle met my aunty when he and his group liberated a slave labour camp. Her family were found to have perished in ghettos and camps throughout Poland and Germany.
Hamas are linked to the terrorist organisations that destroyed the twin towers and set off the bombs in Londonn as well as Bali. They h
yumyummoany 3 years ago
ke bella canzone. sono impressionato!
tobiavelli 3 years ago
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The situation in Gaza is no different than what the NAZIS DID IN THE JEWISH GHETTO IN WARSAW: A group of people blockaded all around by the state who exercises effective control over them in an open-air prison.
Israeli fascists claiming that Israel is "defending" itself sound as humane and just as Nazi SS officers who would claim "but those Jews are throwing stones at us from inside the ghetto!" before they fired back and killed 300+ Jews under that so-called "excuse".
baristarim 3 years ago
Anti semitism 101... what an ignorant comparison...
The next thing you would want the world to believe is that Hamas is a "peace loving" organization that wants to live side by side in peace with the State of Israel. GIVE US A BREAK! The IDF goes out of it way to reduce civilian...casualties more than any other country even at the risk of its own soldiers...just keep talking you help reinforce the fact that people like you still exist...
mwag1267 3 years ago 2
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"just keep talking you help reinforce the fact that people like you still exist" mwag1267
You keep talking like that & you will be parading the fact that the United States needs a major education reform & that people who cannot speak decently shouldn't comment on MidEast peace
I hope you are not misunderestimating me?? :))
Now go get your head out of your ass, learn decent English, pick a book on intl law and realize that what Israel is doing are war crimes and crimes against humanity...
baristarim 3 years ago
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Was that directed at me? I am sorry, you must be confusing me with someone else, because I am not Muslim.
So I take it from the ad hominims that you are unconciously admitting that you are not able to address REAL content, in other words the WAR CRIMES and the APARTHEID that the FASCIST STATE OF ISRAEL is committing right now.
I mean the number of Jews themselves who have compared Gaza to the WARSAW GHETTO is staggering - how are you going to try to denigrate THEM?? :))
baristarim 3 years ago
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Fenhalls 3 years ago
OH, SHUT UP YA BARBAR BARISTAR BARBAR
lexiuni55 3 years ago
Hello,
May I ask someone of You to write me the lyrics of MSB? Alas I can't find it anywhere. :( :(
ratnik44 3 years ago 2
אך ווי טרעפט מען נאך אזעלכע שיינע לידער ווי אונזערע זיסע יידישע פאלקסלידער. א קוש דיר - יידיש, און א קוש אייך יידן.
SchtoltzerYidd 3 years ago
מרגש, הכל נמחק
alxflyisr 3 years ago
Żydzi w Polsce byli wspaniali!!!
Szkoda, ze wykończono ich, bo to naprawdę pracowity i inteligentny naród, czego wszyscy im zazdrościli. Chylę czoła przed Wami!!!
Polak
allenjurist 3 years ago
Popatrz niżej na wypowiedzi Carrotjuse, on jest zapewne Zydem. Wtedy zobaczysz jak wspaniali oni byli!
JAGNA4444 3 years ago
ääh .. der= wer.
tschuldigung.
XJ6NL 3 years ago
Weiss jemand, der das Lied singt?
XJ6NL 3 years ago
dudu fischer
erwinpridan 3 years ago
jiddisch ist die schönste Musik der Welt!
kleeneMira 3 years ago 5
My mother who came from Poland in 1929 sang this song so may times. When I hear it, it brings tears to my eyes.
IDecay32 3 years ago 11
You lucky one...
My bitch grandmother tried to hide her (and my father's) past, trying to pass as a catholic... Yet there are so many Jews in Poland, that she (and my grandpa) went almost all her life in this concealment.
And I was wondering why I never fit with Catholics in Poland, hehe...
LMB222 3 years ago
Same with me. She was not a bitch, rather just ashamed of who she was. The important thing is that you now know.
cooldood1025 3 years ago 2
you ever go to sleep afraid?
morehn 3 years ago
LMB222,
I think you need to try and understand your grandmother's intentions. After the Holocaust,some Jews just wanted to forget that they were Jews, as they felt that being Jewish only brought trouble. They were mistaken, and their decision is tragic, but we must try to understand why people did this, and judge them favourably.
YossiUK 3 years ago 3
Please don't judge your grandmother. To be a Jew in Poland was to die. I don't fit in with the Catholics either but for different reason, my mother converted and my father came from the old country. What matters at the end of the day is whether you are a good person. The past is the past.
als20008 3 years ago 2
@als20008 "Please don't judge your grandmother." - I need to clear this! That word shouldn't have slipped there. It was a personal opinion.
I'd just like to dedicate this song to all those blind idiots that happen to live in Poland (not so many, though!) and who don't understand that Polish culture is much higher than it would otherwise be... without Jews.
Thanks, Brzechwa. Thanks, Polanski, Szpilman, Starski, Epstein... numerous ones...
LMB222 3 years ago
Stop it! You should be ashamed! Even after the war there was still very great prejudice in Poland against the Jewish people. Survivors who tried to return to their homes were threatened, beaten and could be murdered. You have only an idea how dangerous it was, particularly for a woman! Your grandmother was just trying to survive in the only way she knew how .. to hide her past. Please, do not judge her so harshly!
carrotjuse 3 years ago 4
carrotjuse: Prejudice? What prejudice? I lived in Western Poland, where antisemitism is smaller than in US or Canada (where I also lived). Pogroms? That's in Kielce or Bialystok, these places are nowadays called "Polska B".
Stop spreading fear.
LMB222 3 years ago 2
Bullshit, LMB222. Unless you were living there in 1946 you dont have a clue. The history of discrimination against Jews after the war has been well documented by historians and by first-person accounts. Anyway, my point is that you need to rid yourself of your anger against your grandmother who managed to survive the most dangerous period for Jews in human history, when simply being Jewish meant that you lived in fear. She should be honored as a survivor of that period.
carrotjuse 3 years ago
Carrotjuse, don't provocate. What about all the Polish people who were killed by the Jews?? And you know very well what I am talking about.
JAGNA4444 3 years ago
what the hell you are talking about.
even after you killed all the jews
you are still hate them its in your blood
kobi28tz 3 years ago
And Jagna4444... you have got some serious issues... All the polish people killed by the Jews? Tell us who authored the history book youv'e been reading? Unbelievable...
mwag1267 3 years ago
With all due respect "Jagna" If nothing else, this song is reflective of the historical fact that the jews of the shtetele were simple and peace loving... just wanting to live their lives without fear.
mwag1267 3 years ago
Also mwag, it was Stalin who ordered Jews to kill the Polish people. It's a well known historical fact. jews like any other nation are not morally spotless. We are just humans. And humans are not perfect.
JAGNA4444 3 years ago
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Fenhalls 3 years ago
OH SHUT UP YA JAGNA JAGGA JAGGA
lexiuni55 3 years ago
OK Jagna is saying: disregard all my comments against Jews. Sorry!
JAGNA4444 3 years ago
carrotjuse, I told you the phenomenon is largerly geographical. Where I lived there was no such thing - at least not to the extent you're suggesting.
And as for my grandmother, I had clarified that already: the words I used referred to her character, not the fact that she hid her past and tried to be a devout catholic (which is stoll, sorry, pathetic for me).
LMB222 3 years ago
Sung by David Fisher.
alexanderlinden 3 years ago
There will always be people how will hate Jews all over the word... Those who say that Israelian kill Palestinian just don't know the real situation. Poor Palestinian are manipulate and oppessed by dirigeant of Hamas, so if some people soutain Hamas.. THEY are making a crime!!
Chalom!
Eviniou 3 years ago 2
I'm amazed, that a folk song about someone's little village with purely nostalgic lyrics brings out such racist whacos and murderous words. Those folks should get a therapist, and stay away from you tube for a while. Saludos a todos!
modernhumor 3 years ago 10
Shalom from Poland !
a beautiful song !
taltal876 3 years ago 11
so sooo very beautiful,
mutch thanks for this vid,
i love it so mutch,
sorry for my english :P
peace from vienna / austria
Meskal2612 3 years ago 7
I think Connie Francis sang this on her 50's album of Yiddish music. And btw, anyone who thinks my medical life with its life and death decisions is anyone's business but mine has a rock where a brain should be.
lustre5 3 years ago
cool pics
hitherasiatic 3 years ago
why are the people who don´t like jews ar jiddish thning on youtube klick it if you hate thm so much than just stay away fromt his , and bye the way killing poor palistnian yes ok but if palestina attacks isral what do they have to do they have to proted theri country and well if peoeple die sure its sad but do any palestinian think of the jewish babys ????????????
ljuba1986 3 years ago 4
All you haters can lick my circumcised c0ck!
Nazis and muslims fanates are more than wellcome...
arakis11 3 years ago 7
All I know is that I want peace, Anybody who doesnt want peace, or wants to fuck with the jews, I will personally Rape their mothers, and kill their children
badjiman 3 years ago
Was that supposed to be a self-deprecating joke?
Talbworst 3 years ago 2
Fight violence with more violence, that should make everything ok.
carrotjuse 3 years ago
What wonderful memories this brings to mind. Roz
mileyhannah44 3 years ago
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Nazi mentality is alive and well in California's Senators Boxer(the Auschwitz Abortionist)-Feinstein(the Dachau De Lifer)....
timray99 3 years ago
timray99. You are stupid and racist.
aronron2727 3 years ago 4
hmmmm racist?? what is racist about abortion??? these women aren't racists either....they kill children without thinking of race, religion or sexual preferences....run out of descriptive words?
timray99 3 years ago
Vunderbar! Ah' Million Thanks for sharing this piece of pure Art. Very Appreciative!
tubexpert 3 years ago 2
My ancesters on my father's father side were from Bessarabia. Fortunately they emigrated to the US before the terrible pograms of the first few years of the 20th century.
buddmar 3 years ago
This song was written by Alexander Olshanetsky (1892 -1946)who was from Bessarabia, he emigrated to the United States in 1921.
buddmar 3 years ago
The "Belz" referred in this song is a small village or shtetel in Bessariabia , near Kishinev (modern day Moldova, Chisinau) ... NOT the city in Ukraine/Poland.
Look it up in wikipedia.
buddmar 3 years ago
True. My greatgrandmother was born there, according to the ones who lived there this song referres to the shtetel, not the city. Anyhow its a wonderful, yet a little "schmaltzy" song , in a great song tradition.Anyone, nomatter what etnecity or religion who has lost their home can relate to it, I believe. Thanks for posting it!!
sternele1 3 years ago
The singer is Dudu Fisher (An Israeli singer), not Ilex Beller
alon1qaz 3 years ago
Sliczne, dziękuję
ewisima 3 years ago
Piekny film.Wzruszajace slowa.Dziekuje.
Celindus1 3 years ago
Super!Bardzo wzruszające nagranie. Dziekuje
Celindus1 3 years ago
Belzec.....small stethl in POLAND....Belz in Ydish
Beautiful song...
vitka11 3 years ago
Their is also a shtetl Belz in Moldova.
1NewCrusade 3 years ago
Not Bełżec, but Bełz. It's not the same town. Now Bełz is in Ukraine, near the Polish border.
GuruBh 3 years ago
did anyone find out who the singer was and who the artist was? beautiful
aardgal 3 years ago
Ilex Beller
defrey2 3 years ago
Who is the artist whose paintings are in this video? I love them.
Kurtlane 4 years ago
My thoughts exact!! Who is the artist?
alexanderlinden 4 years ago
Ilex Beller
defrey2 3 years ago