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]
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]