1. Hof un Gleyb (Hope and Faith)
2. Maylid (Song of May)
3. Barikadn (Barricades)
4. Yidn shmidn (Jewish Blacksmiths)
5. Eyder ikh leyg zikh shlofn (No Sooner Do I Lie Down to Sleep)
6. In kampf (In Struggle)
7. Vakht oyf! (Awake!)
8. Mayn tsavoe (My Testament)
9. Vilne (Vilna)
10. In zaltsikn yam (In the Salty Sea)
11. Hulyet, hulyet, beyze vintn! (Rampage, Rampage, Raging Winds!)
12. Arbeter-froyen (Working Women)
13. In ale gasn/Hey, hey, daloy politsey! (In Every Street/ Hey, Hey, Down with the Police!)
14. Mayn rueplats (My Resting Place)
15. Shnel loyfn di reder (The Wheels Turn Fast)
16. Ballad of the Triangle Fire/Dos lid funem trayengl-fayer (Song of the Triangle Fire/Bread and Roses)
17. Di tsukunft (The Future)
18. Yugnt-himen (Youth Anthem)
19. Di shvue (The Oath)

Arbeter-froyen (Working Women)
Text: David Edelshtat (1866-1892)
Sung by Adrienne Cooper

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Edelshtadt's Arbeter-froyen addresses women in its protest of the hardships of factory work. The song sounds a call to oppressed women workers to join the labor movement in its fight for justice and equality. Published in the New York newspaper Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Voice of Labor) in 1891, it was also sung by striking workers in Russia and Poland.

Yugnt-himen (Youth Anthem)
Text: Szmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954)
Music: Basya Rubin (n.d.)
Sung by Avrom Mlotek with Children's Chorus, The New Yiddish Chorale, and the Workmen's Circle Chorus

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Vilna poet and partisan Szmerke Kaczerginski wrote this stirring march song for the youth movement in the Vilna ghetto. Many of the young people who took part in the ghetto's active resistance movement later also became combatants in the partisan units that fought the Nazis in the forests.

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