Dalia Schaechter/ Christian Von Gotz - Yiddish Songs By Mordechai Gebirtig

The Yiddish Composer Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942) wrote songs about life in the Jewish neighbourhood of Kazimierz in the city of Krakow, Poland. The songs tell stories about rabbis and factory workers, gangsters and lovers.�During the day he polished furniture, at night he polished songs� said his contemporaries. Gebirtig was shot by Germans in the Krakow Ghetto on June 4th 1942. For the Gebirtig Project, opera-singer Dalia Schaechter and opera-director Christian von Gotz collected the most important of his songs in an intense and personal recording. Some of these songs are recorded here for the first time.