The Beis Aharon Bielski School

Moshe Fhima Intro – Eli

Video

Moshe Fhima Intro

Beis Aharon School Pinsk Belarus 13 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/vi86WhEv3tA

Zog Nit Keynmol – Pinsk

Video

Zog Nit Keynmol – Pinsk

Beis Aharon Bielski School

Source: youtu.be/yN3QGZkmGjY

Counting of the Omer – Moshe Fhima

Video

Counting of the Omer – Moshe Fhima

Beis Aharon Bielski School Pinsk 13 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/qawR9BEqqjM

Yad Yisroel – Wikipedia

Yad Yisroel – Wikipedia

The Yad Yisroel is non for profit 501(C)(3) organization which was started by the Stoliner Rebbe in 1990. Yad Yisroel is an organisation with a goal to bring Russian Jews closer to their heritage.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_Yisroel

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Moshe Fhima Enjoying Oif Dem Pripetchok

Video

Moshe Fhima Enjoying Oif Dem Pripetchok

sung by Cantor Harry Rabinowitz 1959 Beis Aharon School Pinsk 13 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/XQDfkp1s1ys

Oyfn Pripetshik

Oyfn Pripetshik – Wikipedia

Oyfn Pripetshik (Yiddish: ืื•ื™ืคืŸ ืคืจื™ืคืขื˜ืฉื™ืงโ€Ž, also spelled Oyfn Pripetchik, Oyfn Pripetchek, etc.;[1] English: “On the Hearth”)[2] is a Yiddish song by M.M. Warshawsky (1848โ€“1907). The song is about a rabbi teaching his young students the aleph-bet. By the end of the 19th century it was one of the most popular songs of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, and as such it is a major musical memory of pre-Holocaust Europe.[3] The song is still sung in Jewish kindergartens.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyfn_Pripetshik

Itzik Soloveitchik and Moshe Fhima

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Itzik Soloveitchik and Moshe Fhima

Great (great) grandson of Chaim Soloveitchik Halevy Beis Aharon Bielski School Pinsk 13 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/y-D_ssh8S4A

Itzik Soloveitchik

Video

Itzik Soloveitchik

Great (great) grandson of Chaim Soloveitchik Halevy who taught my Zaida Nachum Mendel Rabinowitz in the Brisk Yeshiva c1905 Beis Aharon Bielski School Pinsk …

Source: youtu.be/IOA1FS6dkrE

Shacharit

With Moshe Fhima at Chaim Weizmann’s school, Pinsk

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Video

Moshe Fhima at Chaim Weizmann’s school, Pinsk

Source: youtu.be/I_ik3K4I1zw

Two Pinsk Synagogues

Moshe Fhima – Kiseh Elijahu – Circumcision Chair

Video

Moshe Fhima – Kiseh Elijahu – Circumcision Chair

Source: youtu.be/roYeLnUqVXo

The Second Synagogue
Some Previous Jewish buildings opposite

With Moshe Fhima at The Holocaust Site & Memorial

Moshe Fhima at Holocaust Memorial

Video

Source: youtu.be/Q4TQ0gIeSWk

A second site and memorial

1919 Pinsk massacre – Wikipedia

Pinsk massacre – Wikipedia

The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919 by the Polish Army. The Polish commander “sought to terrorize the Jewish population” after being warned by two Jewish soldiers about a possible bolshevik uprising.[1]. The event occurred during the opening stages of the Polish-Soviet War, after the Polish Army had captured Pinsk.[2] The Jews who were executed had been arrested were meeting in a Zionist center to discuss the distribution of American relief aid in what was termed by the Poles as an “illegal gathering”. The Polish officer-in-charge ordered the summary execution of the meeting participants without trial in fear of a trap, and based on the information about the gathering’s purpose that was founded on hearsay. The officer’s decision was defended by high-ranking Polish military officers, but was widely criticized by international public opinion.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk_massacre

The Town Square

Pinsk – Cultural Heritage Card – Shtetl Routes – NN Theatre

Pinsk – Cultural Heritage Card – Shtetl Routes – NN Theatre

Pinsk is a town, a district center in Brest region. It is situated on the bank of Pina River (the left tributary of Pripyat) 186 km to the east from Brest, 304 km to south-west from Minsk. It has a railway station on the line Brest-Homel.

Source: shtetlroutes.eu/en/pinsk-cultural-heritage-card/

 

ZNK – New videos

Here are new videos of students singing Zog Nit Keynmol that reached me in the last ten days.

  1. Melbourne Yom Hashoah Holocaust Commemoration in April:
Resistance

The background and context

The โ€˜Partisansโ€™ Songโ€™ โ€“ Zog Nit Keynmolโ€“written by Hirsch Glik, 22, ย in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943 ย  is one of the most powerful songs of resistance and defiance ever written.

While Hitler boasted that his Reich would endure for a thousand years, it is the Jewish people who resisted the forces of hatred and have endured, not the murderous Third Reich,ย  which lasted twelve years.

Today, 75 years on, long after the demise of Hitlerโ€™s murderous regime, the partisansโ€™ song is now sung worldwide to mark the Jewish spirit of resistance.

(Michael Cohen, Melbourne)

Melbourne Yom Hashoah – Zog Nit Keynmol

Melbourne Yom Hashoah – Zog Nit Keynmol

Commemoration April 2018 Using video footage from The Partisans’ Song Project

Source: youtu.be/SvNoyReKxO0

PARTISANSโ€™ SONG

Zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,
khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho,
s’vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!

Fun grinem palmenland biz vaysn land fun shney,
mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey,
un vu gefaln iz a shprits fun undzer blut,
shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut!S
s’vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt,
un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mit dem faynt,
nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in der kayor โ€“
vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.

Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut, un nit mit blay,
s’iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl oyf der fray,
dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent
dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent.

To zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,
khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho โ€“
es vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!

 

2 & 3

Schools are now recording the song on their travels:

JDS 8th Graders from Seattle WA sang the Partisansโ€™ Song while visiting Yad Vashem and Masada in Israel:

JDS Seattle School Video – Zog Nit Keynmol

Seattle School Video – Zog Nit Keynmol

Yad Vashem May 18

Source: youtu.be/O8ZOBgVrxNs

JDS Seattle School Video – Zog nit KeynMol

JDS 8th Grade at Masada 14 May 2018

Masada, Israel

Source: youtu.be/NZRH7aq-N3I

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Beis Aharon School and Orphanageย 
Zog Nit Keynmol – Pinsk

Zog Nit Keynmol – Pinsk

Beis Aharon School Pinsk, Belarus 13 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/yN3QGZkmGjY

Moshe Fhima Intro

Moshe Fhima Intro

Beis Aharon School Pinsk Belarus 13 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/vi86WhEv3tA

Learn More about how to get involved
An Inspirational School Project

An Inspirational School Project

A Project For Your School We are seeking students who will recite or sing the Partisansโ€™ Song in their home tongue, or in a language they have learnt. Please make a video, which can be as creโ€ฆ

Source: elirab.me/znk/

Naliboki

Nalibaki – Wikipedia

Nalibaki – Wikipedia

Nalibaki (Belarusian: ะะฐะปั–ะฑะฐะบั–, Russian: ะะฐะปะธะฑะพะบะธ, Polish: Naliboki) is an agrotown in Minsk Region, in western Belarus.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalibaki

Video – Jewish Historical References in Naliboki

Jewish Historical References in Naliboki

Tamara Vershitskaya 16 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/TU2ZVBzldtE

Video – Jewish Memorial in Naliboki

Jewish Memorial in Naliboki

Tamara Vershitskaya, Alexander Pilinkievich, chairman of the local village council, and Ivan – builder 16 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/Nf3QBLP-YYA

Video – Plans for Naliboki

Plans for Naliboki

Tamara Vershitskaya and Ivan 16 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/aFb4YnB9j4Q

A Private Mikvah

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Video – The Private Mikvah

The Private Mikvah

Tamara Vershitskaya talks about the mikvah in Naliboki Belarus 16 May 2018

Source: youtu.be/lndsEPiKshM

Naliboki massacre – Wikipedia

Naliboki massacre – Wikipedia

The Naliboki massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Nalibokach) was the mass killing of 129 Poles,[2] including women and children, by Soviet partisans[3] on 8 May 1943 in the small town of Naliboki[4] in German-occupied Poland (the town is now in Belarus).[5] Before the 1939 German-Soviet invasion of Poland, Naliboki was part of Stoล‚pce County, Nowogrรณdek Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.[1]

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_massacre

In The News

The Maccabean Newspaper – 20 April 2018

Photos by Sas Saddick

See some videos of the commemoration here:

Yom Hashoah Commemoration Perth 2018

Yom Hashoah Commemoration Perth 2018

ย  Yom Hashoah Perth Commemoration Sara Kogan-Lazarus sings Tsi Darf Es Azoy Zayn Sara Kogan-Lazarus sings Tsi Darf Es Azoy Zayn Yom Hashoah Commemoration Perth, Australia 15 April 2018 Yiddish Sourโ€ฆ

Source: elirab.me/yh18/

https://www.leahteddyandthemandolin.com/single-post/2018/04/16/The-Partisans-Song-Project-and-Herzlia-Vocal-Ensemble-keep-Yiddish-alive

A punk version of Zog Nit Keynmol by Yidcore