Cultural Response
Contributed by : Linda Hirschhorn
Object # 1529
1911 / 2011
Mayn Rue Platz was the song (“My Resting Place”) written in 1911 by Morris Rosenfeld to commemorate the fire. It was recorded by Vocolot, a Jewish women’s a cappella quartet based in California, on their album, Behold!
Courtesy of : Vocolot, All rights reserved
Lyrics, translated from the Yiddish
Mayn Rue Platz (My Resting Place)
Don’t look for me where myrtles are green.
You will not find me there, my beloved.
Where lives wither at the machines,
There is my resting place.
Don’t look for me where birds sing.
You will not find me there, my beloved.
I am a slave where chains ring,
There is my resting place.
Don’t look for me where fountains spray.
You will not find me there, my beloved.
Where tears flow and teeth gnash,
There is my resting place.
And if you love me with true love,
So come to me, my good beloved,
And cheer my gloomy heart
And make sweet my resting place.
