Before 14 July 1942, Warsaw ghetto. Invitation for the opening of the
Chaim Nachman Bialik Children’s Home, at Kitchen no. 135 on Leszno
Street 42 Apt. 11, on 14 July 1942.
cINVITATION
We are honoured to invite you to the opening ceremony of the Ch. N. Bialik
Children’s Home⁴²⁸ at Kitchen No 135, Leszno Street 42/11. The celebration will
take place on the same premises on Tuesday 14 July 1942 at 4 p.m.
Respectfully,
The Managementc⁴²⁹
THE PROGRAMME
1. Welcome Recitation
2. Bialik march Parade
3. Hamutal⁴³⁰ by Ch. N. Bialik Recitation
4. I am a father Staging
5. A Lullaby, by Ch. N. Bialik Solo
6. Artisans Staging
7. The launderesses Staging
428
Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873–1934), poet, prose writer, essayist,
translator, classic writer of Hebrew literature, also author of lyrics
in Yiddish. He greatly contributed to the revival of Hebrew poetry and
language. Bialik’s poem about the pogrom in Kishinev, in Hebrew (Ir ha-harega) and in Yididsh (Di shkhite-shtot),
brought him worldwide fame in Jewish society. He also wrote for
children. The title of the most popular Jewish magazine for children of
the interwar period Grininke boymelekh (Little Green Trees),
published in Vilna by Sz. Bastomski, was taken from Bialik’s poem (see
above). He was a cult author for the chalutzim. Słowo Młodych,
an underground journal published in the ghetto by Gordonia, on the 7th
anniversary of the writer’s death published an extensive essay about his
work and fragments of his poems. See Archiwum Ringelbluma, vol. 19; Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, vol. 19: Prasa getta warszawskiego: Hechaluc Dror, Gordonia, eds. Piotr Laskowski, Sebastian Matuszewski, Warszawa, 2015, doc. 8.
429 c-c The same text in Hebrew and Yiddish.
430 Wife of King Josiah, see Kings 2, 23:31.
