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'Ikh Vil Nit Keyn Ayzerne Keytn' (lyrics: Charny Vladek, music: Mikhl Gelbart) is a Yiddish workers' song that expresses ones wishes to be neither in chains as a slave, or with a crown on their head as the ruler. Only one's heart will direct them forward into the future. Sasha is accompanied by Craig Yudelman. Riga-born Yiddish performer, Sasha Lurje is involved in a number of international projects varying in repertoire and styles. She has collaborated with Daniel Kahn to develop an “interlingual” love song duo program STRANGELOVESONGS. She is also a member of an all-star band Semer Ensemble led by Alan Bern. Sasha also performs and leads Yiddish dance with the Berlin klezmer band You Shouldn’t Know From It. One of her most recent projects is Goyfriend: a collaboration with Brooklyn-based Band Litvakus discovering the musical interactions between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours. This was Sasha's (virtual) Australian debut - sharing her favourite worker's and Bundist songs for the 123rd Yoyvl of the Jewish Labour Bund. This year our Yoyvl was, for the first time, conducted entirely online. Join the Jewish Labour Bund in celebrating 123 years since its founding and celebrate the essential workers across the world who find themselves on the front line of the global pandemic.

'Eyder Ikh Leyg Mikh Shlofn' (No Sooner Do I Lie Down to Sleep) is written from the perspective of a seamstress who laments over poor working conditions and social inequality. The author is unknown. Riga-born Yiddish performer, Sasha Lurje is involved in a number of international projects varying in repertoire and styles. She has collaborated with Daniel Kahn to develop an “interlingual” love song duo program STRANGELOVESONGS. She is also a member of an all-star band Semer Ensemble led by Alan Bern. Sasha also performs and leads Yiddish dance with the Berlin klezmer band You Shouldn’t Know From It. One of her most recent projects is Goyfriend: a collaboration with Brooklyn-based Band Litvakus discovering the musical interactions between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours. This was Sasha's (virtual) Australian debut - sharing her favourite worker's and Bundist songs for the 123rd Yoyvl of the Jewish Labour Bund. This year our Yoyvl was, for the first time, conducted entirely online. Join the Jewish Labour Bund in celebrating 123 years since its founding and celebrate the essential workers across the world who find themselves on the front line of the global pandemic.

Before it was made popular on Netflix's hit series 'Money Heist', Bella Ciao was an Italian protest song, originating in the late 19th century among the mondina women, paddy field workers, protesting against harsh working conditions. The song was then modified and adopted as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance by the Italian partisans between 1943 and 1945 during the Italian Resistance, the resistance of Italian partisans against the Nazi German forces occupying Italy, and, during the Italian Civil War, the Italian partisan struggle against the fascist Italian Social Republic and its Nazi German allies. Versions of "Bella ciao" are sung worldwide as an anti-fascist hymn of freedom and resistance. This Yiddish version is a newer one of those. Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss (members of indie-folk band HUSKY and Yiddish folk band 'The Bashevis Singers') perform 'Bella Ciao' translated into Yiddish by Anne Gawenda. This year our Yoyvl was, for the first time, conducted entirely online. Join the Jewish Labour Bund in celebrating 123 years since its founding and celebrate the essential workers across the world who find themselves on the front line of the global pandemic.

Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss (members of indie-folk band HUSKY and Yiddish folk band 'The Bashevis Singers') perform 'Der Alter Nisnboym' / 'The Old Nut Tree' which was written by Itzik Manger for the Yiddish play 'Di Megile'. This arrangement is by 'The Bashevis Singers'. This year our Yoyvl was, for the first time, conducted entirely online. Join the Jewish Labour Bund in celebrating 123 years since its founding and celebrate the essential workers across the world who find themselves on the front line of the global pandemic.

Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss (members of indie-folk band HUSKY and Yiddish folk band 'The Bashevis Singers') perform a poem written by their father/uncle, chaver Michael Gawenda - put to music by Husky and Gideon - 'Far Dir A Lid' / For You, A Song. This year our Yoyvl was, for the first time, conducted entirely online. Join the Jewish Labour Bund in celebrating 123 years since its founding and celebrate the essential workers across the world who find themselves on the front line of the global pandemic.

Melbourne Yiddish diva Karen Feldman performs 'Arum Dem Fayer' and 'What A Wonderful World' in Yiddish (as translated by Tomi Kalinski) at the Jewish Labour Bund 123rd Yoyvl (Anniversary) in Melbourne, Australia. This year our Yoyvl was, for the first time, conducted entirely online. Join the Jewish Labour Bund in celebrating 123 years since its founding and celebrate the essential workers across the world who find themselves on the front line of the global pandemic.