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Yiddish Glory again

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Way back in 2018 I wrote about a CD called Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WW2 (though I don’t think I wrote an actual review of the CD… I should fix that).  Since then various participants in that project including UoT’s Professor Anna Shternshis plus the members of Payadora Tango Ensemble and Likht Ensemble among others have unearthed more lost songs from the ghettoes, labour camps, DP camps and so on.  I’ve written about some of it and some of it features on Payadora’s Silent Tears CD.  Other songs were released on the Yiddish Glory Youtube channel during COVID.

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Lenin’s Torah

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The 2018 Ashkenaz Festival opened last night at Koerner Hall with a concert titled Yiddish Glory.  The background can be found in my preview post about it.  So last night four vocalists and an assortment of instrumentalists performed nineteen numbers from the collection.  They date from 1942; when the outcome of the Great Patriotic war was far from certain, to 1947; when it was already won.  The bulk date from 1944/5; when the outcome was clear though maybe not the costs still to be borne.

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