Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire, 100 years later

SONGS & PLAYS

Mournful Song of the Great Fire (Yiddish)

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Original Mournful Song of the Great Fire in Yiddish

Written and sung by Yehuda Horvitz to the tune of a Jewish prayer, this song commemorates the deaths of Jewish women in the Triangle Fire. We have no information about when it was written. The Kheel Center extends special thanks to Manny Rubenstein of Chicago, IL for donation of these documents ©2003.

Sweatshop conditions in the early 1900's

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