YOM KIPPUR WITHOUT FASCISTS - A LID TSU YOMKIPER
Lyrics: Unknown
Music: Psoy Korolenko and Drew Jurecka, based on elements of Jewish liturgical music
Arrangement: Drew Jurecka
Recorded from an unknown singer, probably a Jewish refugee or evacuee, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the song calls for the death of Hitler, describing him as “kapores,” the sacrificial chicken of Yom Kippur. The song combines the celebration of Judaism’s holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), with people’s anger toward fascism.
English
Yiddish Transliteration
This year we’ll make Hitler our atonement
[kaporeh],
an end, a corner turned on all our suffering
and our sorrows!
On Yom Kippur
he’ll be our sacrificial rooster,
and on Simkhes-Toyre
he’ll burn like a candle at the pole.
So lift him, Jews, over your heads,
but with one condition:
you must all shout loudly as you do it:
“This is my atonement!
This is my substitute!
This one — may the fascist go to his death!”
And may we live to long years —
happy and sweet!
Hayor shlogn mir mit hitlern
kapores
A sof, an ek tsu ale la ydn,
ale tsores!
Af yomkiper
vet er zayn der kapore-hon,
Un af simkhestoyre
vet er brenen, vi a likhtl in der fon.
To heybt im, yidn, af ayer kop, nor bitnay:
Ir zolt ale shrayen hoykh derbay:
Ze kaparati!
Ze halifati!
Ze hadaytchl yelekh lamita!
Un mir tzu langer yor –
gliklekh un zise!
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Source: VNLU, fond 190, folder 151, ll. 62–63