Текст песни Александр Городницкий - Поминальная по идишу

When you leave the house,
 You will see right away:
 Yiddish is over, Yiddish is over,
 Yiddish is over.
 In the Czech Hradcany, Vienna and Vilna,
 Minsk and Poland,
 Where he sounded richly before
 No him anymore.
 Those who once lived in places,
 No on the graveyards, -
 Black and bold took them to heaven
 The smoke of the Holocaust.
 Finished at once with a bullet and gas
 With a vile tribe
 So that this infection does not interfere
 Hebrew with German.
 What Zuskin once thundered
 Or Mikhoels,
 Using the word orally
 Dashing time
 What Markish sang and Sholom
 A bird on a branch
 Former bright, cheap
 It became dilapidated.
 The book of descendants uprooted
 This page
 With a song about how Itzik stubbornly
 He wants to get married.
 In the future, somewhere life without a ghetto
 Wish them!
 Tum, balalaika, spire, balalaika,
 Calm, balalaika.
 Those in whom once a clear word
 Ripe and strong
 Ashes became silent again
 A handful of ashes.
 Dusty books look offended
 In the snow hush.
 Yiddish has ended, Yiddish has ended, -
 Everlasting memory!..