Arbeter Froyen

Arbeter Froyen (Yiddish: אַרבעטער פֿרױען, lit.'Working Women'), also known as Tsu Di Arbeter Froyen (Yiddish: צו די אַרבעטער פֿרױען, lit.'To the Working Women'), is a Yiddish language poem-cum-song written by David Edelshtat, and first scribed by Yankev Glatshteyn.[1] The song combines themes of Socialist Feminism with the ideals of the Jewish Labour Bund. The text of the poem was published on the 8th of May 1891 in Di Fraye Arbeter Shtime in America, with the first publication of the song as a combination of poem and music being in Warsaw, 1918.[2] However the song had been sung before its first written attribution, as shown by contemporaries to events in the late Russian Empire like Anatole Litvak, Shalom Levin, and Abba Levin; who record that the song was popular in the 1890s amongst strikers.[2]

  1. ^ "Arbeter Froyen | Rise Up and Sing". www.riseupandsing.org. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  2. ^ a b "Arbeter Froyen – The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle". yiddishsongs.org. Retrieved 2023-08-14.