Rise up and fight! : songs of Jewish partisans.

Songs except for one recited poem.

Words to the vocal portion in romanized form with English translations on container insert.

Itsik Vitnberg = Yitzhak Wittenberg -- Tsayt-lid = Song of the times -- Tsum besern morgn = Toward a better tomorrow -- Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt = Silent night was filled with stars -- In kriyuvke = In a hideout -- Partizaner-libe = Partisan love -- Partizaner-marsh = March of the partisans -- Dos zangl = Cornstalk -- Troyer past nisht undzer ponim = Sorrow does not suit our faces -- Tsum roytarmayer = To the Red Army soldier -- Harmonika/Sovervuni = Accordion/Circle 'round me -- Shtey oyf tsum kamf = Rise up and fight -- Yid, du partizaner = Jewish partisan -- Varshe = Warsaw -- Dort baym breg fun veldl = There, by the edge of the forest -- Davay zakurim = Gib zhe khaver a roykher ton = Let's smoke together -- Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg = Never say that you have reached the final road -- Undzer lid = Our song (recited by Shmerke Kaczerginski).

Theodore Bikel, Frieda Enoch, Robert DeCormier, vocals ; Noble Voices ; Robert DeCormier, conductor ; additional instrumentalists.

Recorded at the Rebecca and Joseph Meyerhoff Auditorium, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Aug. 1995 and July 1996.

Sung or spoken principally in Yiddish, with some Hebrew and Russian.