A Jewish child | You are a child like all the others

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by Erika Taube (1913 - 1944)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Ein jüdisches Kind

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Du bist ein Kind wie all die vielen,
die auf der ganzen Erde sind,
wie all die anderen Gespielen
und doch bist du so anders, Kind.

Du bist ein Kind, dem Heimat fehlt,
in allen Städten bist du fremd.
So lang dich nicht das Wort beseelt:
Heimat, dein Herz ist ungehemmt.

Text Authorship:

by Erika Taube (1913 - 1944), "Ein jüdisches Kind" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Ein jüdisches Kind", 2011 [medium voice or low voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Carlo Sigmund Taube (1897 - 1944), "Ein jüdisches Kind" [soprano and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "A Jewish child", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "A jewish child", written 2011, copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Un enfant juif", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2011-09-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

A Jewish child

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

You are a child like all the others
that live all over our earth,
like all your world-wide sisters, brothers
and yet you are of different worth:

You are a child without a home,
you are a stranger everywhere -
until these words will be your own:
homeland, your heart is anywhere.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2011 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Erika Taube (1913 - 1944), "Ein jüdisches Kind"
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2011-09-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 51