Heddy Lester - Unter dayne vayse shtern

UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERN
אונטער דײַנע ווײַסע שטערן
It is generally believed that this poem was written by Abraham Sutzkever (July 15, 1913 - January 20, 2010) in the Vilnius Ghetto.
The music was composed around 1950 by Lazar Weiner (October 24, 1897, Ukraine - January 10, 1982, USA)
The original music was composed by Abrham Brudno in the Vilnius ghetto and was sung there for the first time by Zlate Katcherginsky in the performance "Di yogn in fas" (a parody of Diogenes in a barrel).
After the liquidation of the ghetto, Sutskever joined the partisan fighters and survived the Holocaust. Brudno was deported to a German concentration camp in Estonia, where he was murdered in 1943 or 1944.
However, his version is completely separate from Lazar Weiner's song.
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Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat dit gedicht is geschreven door Abraham Sutzkever (15 juli 1913 - 20 januari 2010) in het getto van Vilnius.
De muziek is rond 1950 gecomponeerd door Lazar Weiner (24 oktober 1897, Oekraïne - 10 januari 1982, V.S.)
De oorspronkelijke muziek werd gecomponeerd door Abrham Brudno in het getto van Vilnius en werd daar voor de eerste keer gezongen door Zlate Katcherginsky in de voorstelling "Di yogn in fas" (een parodie op Diogenes in een ton).
Na de liquidatie van het getto sloot Sutskever zich aan bij de partizanenstrijders en overleefde de Holocaust. Brudno werd gedeporteerd naar een Duits concentratiekamp in Estland, waar hij in 1943 of 1944 werd vermoord.
Zijn versie staat echter geheel los van het lied van Lazar Weiner.
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UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERN
אונטער דײַנע ווײַסע שטערן
Unter dayne vayse shtern
Shtrek tsu mir dayn vayse hant.
Mayne verter zaynen trern
Viln ruen in dayn hant.
Ze, es tunklt zeyer finkl
In mayn kelerdikn blik.
Un ikh hob gornit keyn vinkl
Zey tsu shenken dir tsurik.
Un ikh vil dokh, got getrayer,
Dir fartroyen mayn farmeg.
Vayl es mont in mir a fayer
Un in fayer - mayne teg.
Nor in kelern un lekher
Veynt di merderishe ru.
Loyf ikh hekher, iber dekher
Un ikh zukh: vu bistu, vu?
Nemen yogn mikh meshune
Trep un hoyfin mit gevoy.
Heng ikh - a geplaste strune
Un ikh zing tsu dir azoy:
Unter dayne vayse shtern
Shtrek tsu mir dayn vayse hant.
Mayne verter zaynen trern
Viln ruen in dayn hant.
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UNDER YOUR WHITE, STARRY HEAVEN
(Singable English translation by Roslyn Bresnick-Perry)
Under your white starry heaven
Offer me your pale white hand.
All my words are flowing teardrops,
I would place them in your hand.
Gone the luster from their brightness,
Seen through morbid cellar view -
And I no longer have my own space
To reflect them back to you.
My devoted God I offer
Everything that I possess,
As the fire that I suffer
Fills each fiery day I pass.
Only in the holes and cellars
With deadly rest my days I share.
I run higher - over spire
Searching where are you, oh where?
I am chased by phantom beings
Stairs and courtyards goad me too.
There I hang a broken bowstring -
And I sing once more to you:
Under your white starry heaven
Offer me your pale white hand.
All my words are flowing teardrops,
I would place them in your hand.