LUDMILA SHAPIRA sings WALTZ /subtitled/ YIDDISH POETRY IN SONGS ליודמילאַ שפּירא װאַלס

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Music by Ludmila Shapira
Poetry of Rivka Basman-Ben Hayim
Translated by Arye Menachem (LM)
Piano – Ludmila Shapira
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מוזיק פֿון ליודמילאַ שפּירא
פּאָעזיע פֿון רבֿקה באַסמאַן בן־חיים
די ייִדישע פּאָעזיע אין לידער
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RIVKE (RIVKA) BASMAN [BEN-HAYIM] was born on February 20, 1925 in Ukmergė (Vilkomir), Lithuania, graduating fromYiddish public school and Lithuanian high school. She began writing poetry in Yiddish at age seven. In 1941 she was confined in the Vilna ghetto. She was deported and was imprisoned in many camps. She was liberated in 1945 from the Toruń concentration camp in Poland. She published poems: in Baderech (On the road), organ of the survivors in Italy; in publications of Heḥaluts (The pioneer) in Germany; in Undzers (Ours), organ of the Yiddish Literary Association in Israel; in Svive (Environs) in New York; and in Bay zikh (On one’s own) and Goldene keyt (Golden chain) in Tel Aviv. Over the years 1945-1947, she contributed to organizing illegal immigration to the Land of Israel. Her poems were translated into Hebrew, Polish, French, and other languages. She was a co-founder of the literary group “Yung Yisroel” (Young Israel). Her work appeared as well in Mimaamakim, folkslider fun lagers un getos in poyln (From the depths, popular poetry from the camps and ghettos in Poland) (Bucharest, 1945); Sh. Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos and lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948); M. Yofe, Erets yisroel in der yidisher literatur (The land of Israel in Yiddish literature) (Tel Aviv, 1961); K. Molodovski, Lider fun khurbn, t”sh-tsh”h (Poetry from the Holocaust, 1939-1945) (Tel Aviv, 1962); Almanakh fun di yidishe shrayber in yisroel (Annual of Yiddish writers in Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1962, 1967); A. Shamri, Ṿortslen, antologye fun yidish-shafn in yisroel, poezye un proze (Roots, anthology of Yiddish writing in Israel, poetry and prose) (Tel Aviv, 1966); Kopshteyn-Kats, Unter yankeles vigele (Under Jackie’s crib) (New York-Tel Aviv, 1976); Y. Kh. Biletski, Mame in yidishn lid (Mother in Yiddish poetry) (Tel Aviv, 1980). She published the following poetry collections: Toybn baym brunem (Doves by the well) (Tele Aviv: Peretz Publ., 1959), 114 pp.; Bleter fun vegn (Leaves along the road) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1967), 126 pp.; Likhtike shteyner (Luminous stones) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1972), 126 pp.; Tseshotene kreln (Scattered beads) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1982). She was awarded the A. Shamri Prize in 1980, the Fikhman Prize in 1983, and the Manger Prize in 1984. She was living on Kibbutz Hamapil.