Yiddish anti-Zionist song from 1931: Jewish socialists never learn

I came across this fascinating bit of history, an anti-Zionist song originally written in Yiddish in 1931 and translated to English and Russian.

Here are the lyrics and their translations, because the Russian and Yiddish versions are more ironic:

Oy, ihr narishe tsionistn  Mit ayer narishn seykhl Ihr mag dokh geyn tsu dem arbeter Un lernen bai im seykhl!   Ihr vilt undz forn keyn Yerushalaim! Mir zaln dortn golodayen Mir viln beser zain in Rusnland Mir veln zikh bafrayen!     Oh, you foolish Zionists With your foolish minds You might as well go to the worker And learn some sense from him!   You want to take us to Jerusalem! We'll starve to death there We'd rather stay in Russia We'll liberate ourselves! Oh you foolish little Zionists With your utopian mentality You'd better go down to the factory And learn the worker's reality   You want to take us to Jerusalem So we can die as a nation We'd rather stay in the Diaspora And fight for our liberation       Глупенькие сионисты Вы такие утописты Вы бы лучше шли в рабочие Или в трубочисты   В Иерушалаим Идти за вами не желаем Мы в Рассее останемся - Бороться с Николаем!   You little foolish Zionists You're such utopians You'd better go become workers Or chimney sweeps   To Jerusalem We don't want to follow you We'll stay here in Russia— To fight against Nikolai!

 Ah, wasn't life wonderful for the Jews under communism? 

Not to mention the irony of socialists calling Zionists "utopian."

The 1917  political poster on the top promised that Jewish culture would be preserved under communism. It promises "A democratic republic! Full civil rights for all! National autonomy for Jews!"

Their promises are the same ones we are hearing from the Democratic Socialists of America and New York's new mayor. And they are just as empty.

Yet anti-Zionist Jews romanticize the Bund as their model. Russia dissolved the Bund soon after the revolution, in 1921, yet these Jews still romanticize the very philosophy that destroyed them. 

If they were only idiots, OK. But they want to drag all other Jews down to their dangerous depths of stupidity.

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