Es brent

"It is Burning", (Hebrew, העיירה בוערת, literally "our little town is burning", a reference to a shtetl, Yiddish, אונדזער שטעטל ברענט our shtetl is burning) is a Hebrew poem–song written in 1938 by Mordechai Gebirtig.^[1] The poem was originally written about the pogrom of Przytyk, which had occurred two years earlier (1936).

The poem talks about the bystanders' apathy as they watch the events, not in any way attempting to stop them. However subsequernt tp the Holocaust in which Gebirtig himself was murdered, the poem took on a new meaning. It is frequently sung in Israel and around the world on Yom HaShoah.

References

^ "Our Town Is Burning (Undzer shtetl brent)" (html). Music of the Holocaust. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. undated. Retrieved 26 July 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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[1] "Our Town Is Burning (Undzer shtetl brent)" (html). Music of the Holocaust. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. undated. Retrieved 26 July 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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