Tadeusz Faliszewski & Orchestra dir. by Henryk Wars - Ghetto, Tango (muz. A.Piotrowski, text S.Mar), Syrena-Electro 1932 NOTE: This tango's title „Ghetto" represents the original meaning this old Italian word „borghetto", translating as "part of the city, borough". Alternative etymology is from another Italian word for „slag" („getto" or „ghetto"). Many European and Middle Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it. In Venice the island where the slag was stored, was also the area of the Jewish cofinement. This first, as it seems, „Jewish ghetto" in Europe existed because Jews were viewed not only as that they were foreigners due to their non-Christian beliefs in a Renaissance Christian environment, but also their involvement in commercial enterprises might be a threat to a local business. In the 19th century, Jewish ghettos in Europe were progressively abolished, and their walls demolished. The Germans reinstituted Jewish ghettos during World War II in Eastern Europe, turning them into de-facto concentration camps and death camps in the Holocaust. These Nazi ghettos used to concentrate Jews before extermination sometimes coincided with traditional Jewish ghettos and Jewish quarters. Expediency was the key factor for the Nazis in the Final Solution. This very typical, impressive Polish tango tells a story about a provincial little town of Kałuszyn, where poor tailor Abram lives. He is unhappily in love with Estera, a daughter of old Berel <b>...</b>
Thirties
1930
lata
dwudzieste
trzydzieste
Poland
Polish
tango
Jewish
Ghetto
Warsaw
Henryk
Wars
przedwojenne
międzywojenna
Polska
Warszawa
sztetl
shtetl
stare
piosenki
płyta
gramofonowa
78
ob
rpm
240252
