Hidden history : Songs of the Kovno Ghetto.

Program notes by Solon Beinfeld.

This recording, created to complement "Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto", a special exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, features 17 songs written and sung in the ghetto.

S'iz shoyn bald a yor avek = It will soon be a year gone by -- Yidish tango = Yiddish tango -- Tsores un layd = Sorrow and pain -- Nor nit geklogt = Just don't lament -- Fun der arbet = Back from work -- Mamele = Old mother -- Der komitetshik = Committee man -- Maystas = Miastas poultry -- Nit ayer mazl = It's not in the stars -- In Slobodker Yeshive = In the Slobodka Yeshiva -- Hoykher man! = Lofty one! -- Lietuva, Kraujuota ezemce = Lithuania, bloody land -- Ikh hob mayn man farloyrn = I have lost my husband -- Yales = Bigshots -- Frayhayt = Freedom -- Yidishe brigades = Jewish brigades -- Shneyele = Snowflakes.

Performers: Adrienne Cooper, David Stepanovskiy, Dianne Cypkin; Zalmen Mlotek, piano; Zoltan Racz, accordion; Bruno Nasta, violin; Charles Cliff, Jr., guitar and mandolin; Dennis Strawley, clarinet and saxophone; Jonathan Nazdin, bass.

Insert contains words in romanized Yiddish and English, with brief explanation of songs in English.