Tates, mames, kinderlekh (Yiddish: טאַטעס מאַמעס קינדערלעך, lit.
'Barricades'), is a Yiddish song from the 1920s associated with the socialist General Jewish Labour Bund movement.
[1][2] The song describes a workers' strike in Łódź; as men, women and children joined in to construct barricades in the streets of the city.
[1][3] Tates, mames, kinderlekh was written by Shmerke Kaczerginski, who later became a Communist Party activist and a partisan fighter.
The song rapidly became widely popular in the Jewish community in Poland.