June Tabor

“Mayn Rue Platz” (My Resting Place) is a famous Yiddish poem and song by Morris Rosenfeld, a “sweatshop poet,” commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire victims (1911), where a worker tells his beloved not to look for him in beautiful places but where “lives wither at the machines,” a powerful reflection on exploited labor, with various artists performing modern versions.