"Bread and Roses"

Boston Workmen's Circle A Besere Velt (A Better World) Yiddish Chorus, performs "Bread and Roses/Makhnes Geyen" at the Rosenberg Fund for Children's "Celebrate the Children of Resistance" event in Boston, MA, June 19, 2007. The song is a ballad from the 1912 Lawrence, MA textile strike, woven together with an anthem dedicated to the fighters in the Spanish Civil War. "The masses are marching in the struggle for victory." www.rfc.org

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[JimCou]

Wonderful! Such beautiful women and outstanding voices. I had to repeat it several times and each time it left me choked and emotional. Thank you folks for your presentation.

[Lawrencehistory2]

Geetings from the Annual Bread & Roses Festival, Labor Day, 2011

Site of the Bread & Roses Strike of 1912, Lawrence, MA

[Kenbrait]

You mean there is still a Workmen's Circle that sill knows a little Yiddish? How happy that makes me feel. And what a wonderful video of such a great song, the anthem of a largely forgotten strike that changed the world.

[odovicor]

What a wonderful version of this song! Well done, folks!

[Komet67]

I just learned of this very successful strike. Amazing we weren't taught this event in school. Or at least I didn't remember