Tates, mames, kinderlekh
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Tates, mames, kinderlekh (Yiddish: טאַטעס מאַמעס קינדערלעך, lit. 'Fathers, mothers, children'), also known as Barikadn (Yiddish: באַריקאַדן, lit. 'Barricades'), is a Yiddish song from the 1920s associated with the socialist General Jewish Labour Bund movement. The song describes a workers' strike in Łódź; as men, women and children joined in to construct barricades in the streets of the city. Tates, mames, kinderlekh was written by Shmerke Kaczerginski, who later became a Communist Party activist and a partisan fighter. Kaczerginski was only 15 years old at the time the song was written in 1926. The song rapidly became widely popular in the Jewish community in Poland.