Tates, mames, kinderlekh

Tates, mames, kinderlekh (Yiddish: טאַטעס מאַמעס קינדערלעך, lit.'Fathers, mothers, children'), also known as Barikadn (Yiddish: באַריקאַדן, lit.'Barricades'), is a Yiddish song from the 1920s associated with the socialist General Jewish Labour Bund movement.[1][2] The song describes a workers' strike in Łódź; as men, women and children joined in to construct barricades in the streets of the city.[1][3] Tates, mames, kinderlekh was written by Shmerke Kaczerginski, who later became a Communist Party activist and a partisan fighter.[1][2] Kaczerginski was only 15 years old at the time the song was written in 1926. The song rapidly became widely popular in the Jewish community in Poland.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Haaretz. Stone-throwing, an old Jewish custom
  2. ^ a b c Finder, Gabriel N., Natalia Aleksium, Antony Polonsky, and Jan Schwarz. Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies. Vol.20. London: Littman Library, 2008. pp. 395-396
  3. ^ Jewish Currents, Vol. 53. Jewish Currents, 1999. p. 27