Daniel Kahn & Psoy Korolenko — In Zaltsikn Yam | Beneath The Salt Sea | В солоному морі

Beneath the salt sea of humanity's weeping A terrible chasm abides It couldn't be darker, it couldn't be deeper It's stained with a bloody red tide And thousands of years have created this chasm Of piety, hatred, and pain And for thousands of years all humanity's weeping Flows like a limitless rain So much of this sea has been filled with the sorrows Endured by the suffering Jews But only the tears of the poor ones are bloody The rich cry as clear as the dew Yes only the worker, the pauper, the beggar Belong to the bloody abyss While those you call “brother,” the rich and the greedy, Fly high overhead in their bliss The ocean flows over and floods out the levees There isn't a hero in sight Yes where are the ones that will stand at the ready To dive in the chasm and fight Yes, who will at last free the work from slavery, Give hunger its final relief? And who will be guiding the pathway to freedom, To brotherhood, justice and peace? Bund-120-Yoyvl, 2017. Copyright © Bund Melbourne    / @bundmelbourne   Our friends, Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko (The Unternationale), sent us a video message for our Bund 120 Yoyvl in Melbourne, Australia. In this video, they sing 'In Zaltsikn Yam'. October 22, 2017.
Copyright © Psoy Korolenko and Daniel Kahn (and "Oy Division") From "The Unternationale: The First Unternational" LP, 2007.


Copyright © Auris Media, Israel, 2008.
Daniel Kahn - vocals, accordion, ukulele, piano, music box Psoy Korolenko - vocals and piano Oy Division: Gershon Zeizersohn - violin and vocals Noam Inbar - vocals and percussion Eyal Talmudi - clarinet and percussion Avichai Tuchman - double bass Assaf Talmudi - accordion Produced by Yaniv Fridel, Assaf Talmudi and Victor Levin Recorded on 24th July, 2007 in Kicha Studios, Tel-Aviv, by Marco Gurkan, Ronen Roth and Ronen Hajaj Mixed by Yaniv Fridel at Shriek Studios, London Mastered by Itzik Philiba at Masterdisk Studios, Tel-Aviv Cover Design by Victor Levin and Chen Langer Front Cover Picture is modified Woodcut from a book called "The World Turned Upside Down" by anonymous, 17th Century, England Executive Producer: Victor Levin In Zaltsikn Yam ­ Translated by Daniel Kahn
The poem is a fierce indictment against the Jewish establishment, namely the wealthy and the Zionists who do not have the Jewish workers’ interests in mind. It ends by praising the Bund as the savior of the Jewish workers. An additional poetic connection to the Bund was An-Sky’s poem “Di Shvue” (The Oath), written around the same time, which became the Bund’s anthem. Despite the popularity of these two songs among Bund members and the strong rhetoric of “In Zaltsikn Yam” praising this political organization, An-sky was never a member of the Bund. For much of his life his main political allegiance was to the Narodniks, the social revolutionaries that saw the peasant class as the heart of the nation from which the revolution would arise.
The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: ‏אַלגעמײנער ייִדישער אַרבעטער־בונד אין ליטע, פּױלן און רוסלאַנד, romanized: Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter-bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland), generally called The Bund (Yiddish: דער בונד, romanized: Der Bund, cognate to German: Bund, lit. 'federation' or 'union') or the Jewish Labour Bund (Yiddish: דער יידישער ארבעטער־בונד, romanized: Der Yidisher Arbeter-Bund), was a secular Jewish socialist party initially formed in the Russian Empire and active between 1897 and 1920. In 1917 the Polish part of the Bund, which dated to the times when Poland was a Russian territory, seceded from the Russian Bund and created a new Polish General Jewish Labour Bund which continued to operate in Poland in the years between the two world wars. The majority faction of the Russian Bund was dissolved in 1921 and incorporated into the Communist Party. Other remnants of the Bund endured in various countries. A member of the Bund was called a Bundist.
Семен Якимович Ан-ський (псевдонім, справжні ім’я та прізвище Шлойме Зайнвіл Аронович Раппопорт; 15(27) жовтня 1863, Чашники, Вітебська обл, Білорусь — † 8 листопада 1920, Варшава) – відомий єврейський письменник, драматург, етнограф, дослідник єврейського фольклору, революціонер, культурно-політичний діяч...