Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen | Tants a bisele mit mir

Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen | Tants a bisele mit mir 

Relatively rare Soviet Yiddish recordings that obliquely document anti-Jewish policies in the postwar USSR. A: Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen; B: Tants a bisele mit mir. Folksinger Zinovy Shulman (1904-1977) was imprisoned in 1949. The song on Shulman's"" side, here called"Tants a bisele mit mi" (Dance with me a while), was the source for the Vilna ghetto song,"Hot zikh mir di shikh tseris" (I've torn my shoes). Phonograph record 4 (purple label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Zinovy Shulman, voice N. G. Valter, piano (Leningrad & Moscow, 1949: Gramplasttrest 11617-11618)