Because my brother mentioned Oifn Pripizhok in the middle of a rather glum talk and I went to look it up, I came across this version of oifn pripichok and couldn’t stop crying.  The video connects it to the holocaust even though the connection isn’t logical.  But there are more verses and they do indicate the same direction.

So i searched for a song that would make me feel better – and looked up Martha Schlamme’s Oifen eiven – over the hearth – that describes a girl sitting on the shelf above the fireplace, sewing. A boy comes by and pulls on the thread, and she pulls him up.  The song ends with both of them on the shelf above the hearth – and nobody is pulling or sewing.  There are lots of songs in Yiddish about lovers, but they are forgotten.  Like “Margaritkelach” which is about a one-night stand – well, a single- afternoon stand.