March of The Jobless Corps - Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird

From Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird's album "Lost Causes"
www.paintedbird.net
available as Oriente Music's RIEN 77 at www.oriente-express.de
Original Yiddish song by Mordechai Gebirtig, written ca. 1930 in Krakow.
English by Daniel Kahn, 2009. Arrangement by Michael Winograd/Jake Shulman-Ment
instrumental, "Nifty's Freylakh" by Naftule Brandwein
Directed by Aviv Kosloff
www.avivkosloff.com
Produced by Frederik Poppenk - Likewise films
www.likewisefilms.com

[@domi8619]

Who else here is in their second once in a lifetime recession?

[@jefsoete9793]

third time's the charm for world revolution

[@eleSDSU]

just two?

[@LetsGoWrongboarding]

That dog *will* hunt

[@Ironclad001]

My third before I’m 21. LETS GO BOYS!

[@rileyanonymous6568]

Haahhhahahahhahahaah and then it gets worse. Every year et eternum people recomment this

[@CzechAvailabilitie]

Yiddish is related to German but it's a separate language. Saying Yiddish is German is a bit like saying Catalonian is Spanish, Kurdish is Persian or Swedish is Danish. There is a large number of similarities and some mutual understanding but it's still two different things.

[@salsicha5305]

I see your point but to be fair Yiddish is almost mutually intelligible with German, I don’t speak Yiddish but I (german speaker) get what they are saying just fine, it’s another language, yes, but it’s pretty understandable to mix the two if you don’t speak or know either

[@_raresis5405]

@@salsicha5305 it s like the romantic languages, pretty understandable, but not the same

[@salsicha5305]

Rares-Alexandru Ionascu I mean, not really, especially if you’re talking Plattdeutsch, the ease a German speaker has with Yiddish is way bigger than a portuguese speaker with Spanish, and they don’t sound as similar as Plattdeutsch and Yiddish

[@arionerron4273]

I *was* wondering why my German was failing me there for a moment until I realised what was going on haha

[@eldariskenderfranke4284]

I agree, although Yiddish and German are closer than Persian and Kurdish and the other examples you named. Yiddish is basically just medieval German, listen to medieval(Mittelhochdeutsch) poems and compare them to yiddish, THAT is the same thing. This is because the jewish diaspora from Germany started in medieval times, the jews preserved medieval German.

[@zeyode]

This song got weirdly relevant lately

[@pocketsand5216]

It always was, it was just brought to everyone who wasn't paying attention.

[@AwesomeReshiram]

the jobless corps are marching once more...

[@alexisXcore93]

@@AwesomeReshiram but maintaining social distancing

[@gaymin3252]

@@AwesomeReshiram The jobless corps are marching 1.5 meters apart

[@isaiahcampbell488]

Down to even the spike in unemployment and people wearing plague masks in public... weird. Lol P.S. I'm not commenting from a political perspective (I made the mistake of scrolling down in the comment section lol).

[@reignofthestang]

This actually aged well tbh. How prophetic for KZbin to recommend this to me.

[@samsadowitz1724]

And to think that this was inspired by a song with identical Yiddish lyrics from 1938.

[@JosephWall117]

@@samsadowitz1724 Thanks, now I gotta find that. This song holds up so well, I've had "arbetsloze zenen mir" in my head for days

[@samsadowitz1724]

@@JosephWall117 the song is called "Arbetlosenmarsch"

[@skylanima7711]

this band singlehandedly convinced me to actually sit down and learn Yiddish, if only to understand the lyrics and be able to sing along. It's quite rare to find such catchy and loveable songs nowadays that also carry such a strong political message. Love it.

[@Hchris101]

Yiddish. I was listening to Israeli music and this autoplayed and i was confused.

[@kanutahytomka4542]

now you speak german too

[@Skrimbi]

​@@kanutahytomka4542Yeah lmao that's why I learn Yiddish, I was like oh, that's just German++

[@CoreDump451]

I speak Arabic and German, so I can even understand some of the semitic words, as Hebrew and Arabic share some root words, plus I understand almost all the Germanic words, but I want to sit down someday and learn Yiddish for real; it's one of my favourite languages; it sounds like melodic German Yiddish music is so beautiful; something about reaches very deep into me like no other music

[@dasWombat01]

As a native German speaker, It's amazing how I can basically understand everything. The transliteration to the Latin alphabet looks a bit wonky at times, but it's pretty easy to get the gist of things.

[@brennneszelurtiko1002]

I like how they take the "means of production" at the end.

[@holmegab]

Good catch

[@rhymeswithmoose228]

I love how popular this is! Seeing modern day internet comments on Yiddish stuff is very heartening.

[@gar-feels4438]

Klezmer never dies!

[@mischlingbeerandcigarman]

Never

[@gabriellag8621]

"Idle as a CEO" Savage!

[@entitygamma1792]

His smile is so warm

[@lynnixvarjo9150]

@Egoism-Anarchism-Communism-Sydicalism I want to know more about your Ideology, it sounds interesting

[@rockpooladmirer]

@@lynnixvarjo9150 tbh ansyn and ancom are fairly mainstream libcom ideologies, and i guess if you want a /trip/, read stirner to find out abt egoism? idk if i could ever manage it tbh (edited for typo)

[@lynnixvarjo9150]

@@rockpooladmirer I meant the Combination of Egoism and Communsim sounds ... Interesting

[@CW-zs8hb]

Communism is the natural consequence of authentic egoism, if everyone think for themselves and act out their true desires they would soon realize that the best course of action is to unite, take over the means of production, and live together in equality and freedom

[@KardasheviteUltravisionary]

Well, this is gonna be in my head for the next few weeks...

[@ИванХаритонов-у1ь]

fucking syndicalist...

[@wug6175]

@@ИванХаритонов-у1ь what?

[@dispensergoinup]

i can never escape it can i

[@JacktheRah]

This song (only Yiddish version) came up on my workers song playlist on spotify. And firstly I wasn't 100 % convinced. Then I listend to it another time. And the more often I listened to it the more I loved it. And I am a German native, and I made it a challenge for me to try to understand everything that the song says. And it forced me to just stop whatever I was doing and focus 100 % on the song and that was actually a very interesting experience. And now I see this version on KZbin. And the video is fecking great!

[@sashahajzler269]

can we get some titles from your spotify playlist ? :D

[@AmericanCaesarian]

Arbietlose senen Mir

[@maltewulf5152]

I felt excatly the same

[@kamion53]

I only know this is the version of Zupgeigenhansel with another collection of Jiddische Lieder and seeing this I prefer the Zupgeigenhansel edition, this lacks a bit of personalisation and authenticity..

[@damirbakarcic5444]

Workers, peasants, kibbutzniks, first to come to work, first to fight, first to die, last to leave

[@gamingmosher999]

When the video ends with seizing the means of production *chef kiss*

[@anarchosnowflakist786]

you can also interpret this as the people taking the revolution and owning it instead of those who are on a pedestal ("professional revolutionaries", or "the party" or whatever other allegory you can find)

[@xandermoore6485]

@@anarchosnowflakist786 a revolution must come from mass action, but it is never spontaneous. it must be carefully planned and executed to be most effective, to strike when the iron is hot and the chance of success is the highest. for this the proletariat needs an organising force, which comes in the form of a revolutionary party. it's immature to pretend that millions of people can be organised without having a leader. i agree they should not be placed on a pedestal or venerated, but this is simply not what is shown in the video. the video shows this mass action, the people seizing the means of production and owning them communally for the workers. it does not portray any message about authority

[@Hoerentrup]

There's something revolutionary about Daniel's appearance, not only in this video :)

[@VincentiusSmith]

In fairness, you can substitute a beard for a good moustache: russiapedia.rt.com/files/prominent-russians/history-and-mythology/nestor-makhno/nestor-makhno_3-t.jpg

[@rimatheima]

in my opinion he looks like the great anarchist revolutionary hristo botev

[@ChloeHowie]

Me to my friends: okay okay, tonight I won't get all political I promise. Also me at the Karaoke bar:

[@mischlingbeerandcigarman]

Me too

[@portal6347]

Real

[@michamalinowski8015]

The song of year 2020.

[@PaleMaleNYCGen4]

Transcendent. Bittersweet, stinging, and Defiantly Joyful. I cry everytime I hear Yiddish, the mameloshen, the mother tongue of my ancestors. Would it please the wastelands to know that love? Many places, Yiddish is ridiculed. "Gee, you sure talk German funny." Sadly, when Chava Alberstein recently performed in Israel, as was reported in the Forward, singing in Yiddish, she was laughed off the stage. Es pas nisht! (This will not do. It is improper). For Tikkun ha-Olam, Zay a Mensch! Love.

[@reallynicekid]

FIND THE CRACKS AND BASK IN THE LIGHT THAT SHINES THROUGH

[@JRain234]

For a land, a world of justice, where no boss or cop can bust us!

[@emanonymous]

there should be a "love" button

[@silverkitty2503]

We feel the love ..that's enough brother :) Although a love button would be good!

[@Cisza01]

Great remake of this traditional old song that remains up-tp-date!

[@salsicha5305]

O boy, a Yiddish socialist song that sounds Slavic, the Nazis must be having aneurisms seeing this

[@yopassthefuckinsalt922]

/pol/ implodes everytime that "jewish", "socialist" and "anti-zionist" are included in the same sentence, so, yeah, definitely.

[@kylebirch7258]

I quite like it tbh

[@r.coburn3344]

Good, saves me ammunition.

[@kylebirch7258]

@@r.coburn3344 ok

[@workingproleinc.676]

As slavic guy my self an customer of mine who is educated in linguistic did me explain,that most Jiddishes has dip of slavic language.

[@KFishproductionII]

3 million laid off due to Coronavirus...

[@dielfonelletab8711]

more than enough for the vanguard...

[@RyRy2057]

that was in one week, this week it was 6 million

[@АртёмДемин-э8ы]

16 mil in previous month already only in US

[@maggydasmauschen373]

@@АртёмДемин-э8ы over 30 million now

[@AodhMacAuliffe]

Nice to see a fellow RISKtoid here

[@mishak6175]

Here in the middle of a pandemic, unemployment reached 10mil in 2 weeks. Reviving this in March 2020

[@JoopKarelSpank1]

i like how the capitalist are still trying to work the crowd at the ending and the crowd is having none off it

[@algerianprophet9654]

A Jewish anti-capitalist song. Now that is what I enjoy.

[@gnosis2871]

Oh boy, this is just the tip of the ice berg. There's plenty of Yiddish socialist, anarchist, and social democrat music from the bundist movement

[@brennenderopa]

@@gnosis2871 what should I look for?

[@northeastwisconsinsocialis2466]

@bob john thanks so much for this, my grandmother would be proud to see me listening to ... would this be considered klezmer music? anyway, I recoiled from all things jewish as a young kid, and now that my grandma is gone, i am sort of unearthing my jewishness, and its fun and interesting and educational for sure.

[@FrozenRat161]

Begone fascist. Follow your leader. Unless you need help.

[@algerianprophet9654]

@@FrozenRat161 Learn to be humble, lazy fool.

[@pandaSalas1994]

This song is amazing, greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@RedArmyUncle]

I will be listening to this for hours.

[@anniescornavacca1472]

I listen to this so much that I can even sing a few lines of the Yiddish.

[@user-or7mh5we2k]

Workers unite and organize! Do not let your rights and wages be trembled over! Unionise!

[@agnosticnixie]

Mordechai Gebirtig's poetry remains beautiful and still as powerful even in the adapted translated bits, while showing the translator's own. The song is amazing.

[@lizzyfrizzle8986]

I’m so jealous of their beards

[@lizzyfrizzle8986]

D Man well you see my genes haven’t been so kind to allow that to happen to any great extent

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Ok that clarinet line is legit fire

[@nicosuave9]

Love it! It's like the klezmer theme to the occupy movement!!

[@wfcoaker1398]

Rights are rights. What matter what language they’re expressed in?

[@krpbdp]

Lucky enough to see Mr. Kahn in performance (with The Painted Bird) many years in Princeton, something I'll never forget. Went to Berlin in April hoping to see him, but he was not performing. Wish I could see him again....not giving up hope! In the meantime I'll play his CDs.

[@jessicasherman1510]

Just love it!

[@TheShiz9797]

Crowned heads will tremble when the black and red unite.

[@Youtubeisntlettingmeuseczech]

Otto von Bismark.

[@luisdergroe8944]

But some parts of the reds will never be able to join the blacks. And i am not Even a anarchist myself, but still this is obvious.

[@snazzrazzmazzlejazz8974]

Anarcho-Stalinism wen?

[@tarimali4466]

The Grass Masks lmao

[@icameherejusttocomment550]

Bismarck was referring to the Catholic blacks, i.e. the centrists, not the anarchists. As an anarcho-capitalist can never join a fascist (because the fascist will resist the anarcho-capitalist's philosophy of self-interest which contradict with the his statist ideals and the anarcho-capitalist shall resist the fascist's restrictions on immigration which contradict his philosophy of the pursuit of wealth through open borders and a meritocratic society), an anarcho-communist can never join a Marxist-Leninist, lest the Marxist-LEninist see his police officers hit with molotovs and the anarcho-communist's local organisations destroyed by the vanguard party.

[@antondementiev2188]

Psoy looking mighty fine with dat epic beard

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Happy May Day, y’all

[@gabrielkiwetz]

VIVO EN ARGENTINA MIS ABUELOS ESCAPARON DE HITLER GRACIAS PÓR CANTAR TAN LINDO EN IDISH

[@commietzarsmith8167]

A Jewish socialist song; basically the alt right's worse nightmare

[@anonanonym9872]

Stirlingite Gamer 😁

[@pastrychef1985]

I reckon I could come up with a decent anti alt right set of lyrics, but I feel sorry getting real on a bunch of children

[@pastrychef1985]

I don't know enough about anime or fast food in the US to make anything. I've failed in my mission. Point still stands, they're still a bunch of easily "triggered" manbabies.

[@MegaGiants11]

They are always brag about fighting"Jewish Bolshevism" but they would probably piss their pants if they actually met a Jewish Bolshevik

[@Kangozion]

MegaGiants11 Even more funny is that Jewish Bolshevism is Nazi revisionist history. It was the Germans in ww1 that helped the Bolsheviks get to power in Russia and Marxist socialism was created by Prussians.

[@lrobtu]

Love this!

[@adamhauson1211]

Mr. Kahn keep it up, I love your works thus forth.

[@umuse]

Cool! The lights ominous surrealistic, the cast and the masks all give a eerie otherworldly touch without compromising its "folkstuemliche" essence, splendid song, performance and video editing...

[@daturadreams]

Donning a beard a without license should be illegal. Only cool mo'fos like like this should be offered a license, and than decline it, on account of being counter- establishment.

[@cosmoreverb3977]

This made me laugh more than it should've

[@iosuaf3293]

Towards our universal and international liberation for all proletarians/peasants/precariat/nations! Solidarity from the center of Capitalist Imperalism: U.S.A.!

[@chrisfox7034]

+Gerhard Olson All you fascists 'bound to fail. As long as there are men and women that value liberty you and your orang-outang overlord will never win.

[@zacharyreist6605]

Get back to abusing workers in the gulags, commie!

[@pocketsand5216]

@@zacharyreist6605 bruh imagine conflating the USSR with communism or ancoms

[@somedude1331]

@@zacharyreist6605 The gulags weren't just "prisons", not at all

[@Markus_Blewish]

great video, great band hope to see more from you guys. and great song too. i personally think gebirtig is one the great composers of 20th century even if He doesn't have mass appeal. i would never have heard of him but for youtube.

[@butterball33]

Update: Things have gotten worse, now the railroad industry faces huge worker loss over worker benefits since railroad employees are forbidden from striking. Chaos is soon at hand.

[@NoahMishkin]

Loved seeing you guys play last night at the City Winery Chicago Downtown Seder.

[@GargoyleZoo]

Oh man, the sequel coming out later this year is gonna slap

[@militantpacifism]

love to all the jewish brothers and sisters struggling against capitalism

[@wedoalittlemonkeybusiness6545]

@Sir Oswald Mosley those are dirty Zionist that work with the pigs in power they all get the bullet

[@stubbypepperroni2357]

@Sir Oswald Mosley And?

[@lumpenproletarier9584]

@Sir Oswald Mosley same goes for Caucasians. There has been a large number of Jews in the socialist movement, even marx was a jew so what is your point? Your probably just an antisemit.

[@lakiog1938]

@@georgwilhelmfriedrichhegel9602 get rid of hegel in ur pfp

[@Char12403]

@Oskar Memewranger Off yourself.

[@jaclynroughsedge-norris3881]

We’ll be ringing in the New Year with this song.

[@Monster404ftp]

"Work and pay our union dues, what did years of that produce? Houses cars and other shit, for the rich's benefit, what do workers get for pay? Hungry, broke and thrown away, hungry, broke and thrown away. Man that one hit home. As we the working class observe and suffer through today's decrepit material conditions, This song and "Sixteen tons" by Tennessee Ernie ford both bear a lot of relevance.

[@SebastiaanHolStadsgids]

Great performance of an epic song!

[@Alex-Azl]

Greetings from Brazil!

[@valleyfreeradiowxoj-lp4579]

Great song. Can't play that on the radio, unfortunately, without editing out sh#t.

[@WesleyPinkham]

See the mistake you made here was having Psoy Korolenko trying to fix your car.

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

Lol

[@reala164]

3:17 Workers seize the means of production -1917 colorized

[@MasontheMarxistDog]

This will play at my funeral

[@numediaweb]

Great video! It was fun to be there at the Berlin old factory. Nice color tone too :)

[@TamaCinema69]

Eternally relevant song played brilliantly

[@friederikefiesser5906]

You guys are just so good!!! Saw you once live in the synagogue of Heidelberg. :)

[@Radleta]

lf ever become famous politican, will invite those guys to play for the events organized by the idea, l'm in.

[@karlovisttimes8271]

Same

[@xtraelectra7023]

Eins meiner Lieblingslieder!

[@mischlingbeerandcigarman]

Danial Kahn tells the truth and doesn t give a ****. G*d bless him.

[@JKjpg]

Wait is 1:09 a Das Kapital refrence? Idk but that looks like around 20 yards to me...

[@universalverdunner8201]

lmao

[@Stormy_K76]

How is this not more popular 😭

[@MissDramatique]

even after all these years that you played in switzerland, I'm still echanted by your music. a sheinem dank für die musik :)

[@Ourobrbr]

Как же приятно тут видеть Псоя Короленко. Обожаю их всех

[@magickis33]

Best video I've seen and heard so far this year!

[@Sofia-k5c9d]

Merci mon poto sheima de dam 😊chef d oeuvre merci l equip😊

[@grafoxunveil8449]

ВПЕРЁД, ВПЕРЁД, РАБОЧИЙ НАРОД!

[@deeznutz9869]

"Quarantine Waltz" seems like a solid premise for a song, ijs

[@eleSDSU]

Woosh

[@T4MaxDP]

Greatest song ever 😎

[@anticapital666]

WOW! zey zenen gut!!!! un ikh ken yiddish red a bisl un nisht a sakh!!!

[@spurdo-benisbrigade3203]

anticapital666 איך בין ארטאדאקס

[@KikiLoveSaysHi]

I just saw this band play this song at CSUN today!

[@krewetkakreci4330]

i love psoy in this video

[@shiezoli]

Excellent Shot !!!

[@DavidBTesla]

Where is this filmed?

[@throwawayaccount4722]

Almost forgot my daily viewing

[@albtraumderhochfinanz7573]

Wunderschön !

[@theklorg305]

Finally, a video with views but no Anti-Semitic comments!

[@adamnunn5946]

I'm glad the guy at the end was allowed to keep his cello

[@rumpelstilzz]

As a german, that yiddish sounds like some 19th century german. You understand most of it, but it's really weird :)

[@MCArt25]

as an austrian, it's basically viennese with a couple funny words

[@rumpelstilzz]

@@MCArt25 Jetzt erst gesehen, bei 3:19 steht sogar Hartz IV auf dem Plakat :D

[@christophergreenfield2785]

Definitely listen to it twice never fought I discovered a kNew band today

[@MijmerMopper]

Fun times as a dutchman. Hear the song go yiddish which soundshalf wierd dutch and half incomprehensible sounds.

[@tereza.b]

Simple love that beginning...

[@wilsonbaruchi4618]

essa é nossa cultura

[@CoalMiningTown]

As a working-class Brummie I love this !!!!

[@markocivonalim9934]

Great song. Tnx daniel

[@farfallica]

I love this song :)

[@Batyamissima]

What a pleasure

[@ikhveysnit]

In the state's there's this newish TV channel on Cable called Link TV. They have a music show and this would be perfect for it. Plus, the breaks in Democracy Now have musical numbers and they're looking for music that goes with story themes. It would be perfect to see this next to the stuff on Wisconsin.

[@dansingmuch]

I enjoyed it verly much.

[@FunkyBruja]

I really love this!!!

[@Sofia-k5c9d]

Mon p'tit rabbin Sava? sheima de dam 😊

[@420fartmaster]

damn ok this is just hell of good basically

[@listengort88]

Muy Bien. Magniv. Shoene.

[@dotdotdotdot6560]

Amazing

[@przewodnikgorski]

Great! I hope to see Dan and TPB in Poland again

[@anonanonym9872]

노래 개좋아