is not an exaggeration to say that Gebirtig's songs were lovingly sung the world over. S'brent One of Gebirtig's best-known songs is "S'brent" (It is Burning), written in 1938 in response to the 1936 Przytyk pogrom in the shtetl (small town) of Przytyk. Gebirtig had hoped its message, “Don't stand there, brothers, douse the fire!” would be a call to action. Kraków (Cracow) underground Jewish resistance adopted S'brent as its anthem in World War II. "Undzer shtetl brennt" was sung in the Nazi ghettos of German-occupied Europe. Since then the song, in the original Yiddish and in its Hebrew translation titled "Ha-Ayyarah Bo'eret" (העיירה בוערת), "Our Little Town is Burning!" - hence the occasional reference to a Yiddish title, "Undzer Shtetl Brent!", continues to be widely performed in the context of Holocaust commemoration. Arbetsloze marsh One of Gebirtig's political songs that is also still popular today is the Arbetloze marsh or Song of the Unemployed: Publications and recordings . Edition Künstlertreff, Wuppertal – (gramophone record and booklet) . Edition Künstlertreff, Wuppertal – . Edition Künstlertreff, Wuppertal – . Studio Hard, Warschau (CD) 1946: . Krakau 1946 1949: . Farl. Dawke, Paris 1949 1992: . Wuppertal 1992. – 1997: . Lerner, Tel Aviv 1997 2005: .' Anthony Coleman, piano. Tzadik, 2005 References Further reading Christina Pareigis: „trogt zikh a gezang ...“: jiddische Liebeslyrik aus den Jahren 1939-1945. Dölling & Galitz, München 2003. – Gertrude Schneider (Hrsg.): Mordechaj Gebirtig: his poetic and musical legacy. Praeger, Westport/Connecticut 2000. – External links Official Mordechai Gebirtig Memorial website Bibliography http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/arts/musVicti.htm Papers of Mordecai Gebirtig at the YIVO, New York. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/krakow/gebirtigmordechai/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110519162239/http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1901 http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/vanoort/fayfele/vanoort.fayfele.html ( Mariejan van Oort & Jacques Verheijen produced 'Mayn Fayfele', a musical portrait of Gebirtig, 2003.) http://ulrich-greve.eu/free Free scores and song lyrics in Yiddish Bundists 1877 births 1942 deaths Writers from Kraków Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Yiddish-language poets Jewish poets People who died in the Kraków Ghetto Polish poets Deaths by firearm in Poland Polish civilians killed in World War II Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Broder singers