1er septembre 2008

Marc Chagall - 1887-1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZwPiUPbN0

0. music: Unter dayne vayse shtern,
sung by Chava Alberstein

0. "Under your white stars", a prayer-lyric, written by Israeli-Yiddish poet Abraham Sutsever, the bard of the Vilna Ghetto.

0. Unter dayne vayse shtern
Shtrek tsu mir dayn vayse hant
Mayne verter zaynen trern
viln ruen in dayn hant
Ze, es tunklt zeyer finkl
In mayn kelerdikn blik
Un ikh hob gornit kayn vinkl
Zey tsu shenken dir tsurik
Un ikh vil dokh, got getrayer
Dir fartroyen mayn farmg
Vayl es mogt in mir a fayer
Un in fayer mayne teg
Nor in kelern un lekher
Veynt di merderishe ru
Loyf ikh hekher, iber dekher
Un ikh zukh, vu bistu, vu?
Nemen yogn mikh meshune
Trep un hoyfn mit gevoy
Heng ikh a geplatste strune
Un ikh zing tsu dir azoy
Unter dayne vayse shtern
Shtrek tsu mir dayn vayse hant
Mayne verter zaynen trern
viln ruen in dayn hant
Ze, es tunklt zeyer finkl
In mayn kelerdikn blik
Un ikh hob gornit kayn vinkl
Zey tsu shenken dir tsurik
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0. Under your white stars
give me your white hand
my words turn into tears,
receive them in your hand.
When it becomes night
let the stars light up the dept of my glance
so I find quiet in the darkness,
allow you to weep again.

0. Only you hear what I ask,
only you know my pain.
Look at this fire, this I carry
and it burns in my heart.
In the cellars, in the dungeons
the freedom is in the death.
On the houses, on the roofs
I shout: "Where are You, God?"

Restless I look for You,
chased by death.
Only for this song I allow me a pause,
and I sing for You, oh God.