
Yiddish Glory
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Yiddish Glory: Grammy-nominated ensemble. Debut album, The Lost Songs of World War II, is on @sixdegreesrcrds
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11-12-2018 18:16:06
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On this #HolocaustMemorialDay: š BBC Radio 3 for this documentary by Michael Rossi about how Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan welcomed Jewish refugees during WWII Learn about the music that was written in Central Asia about this w/ @uoft prof Anna Shternshis Alice Zawadzki Yiddish Glory

For #UofT historian Anna Shternshis U of T Arts & Science, understanding the past means connecting with peopleās stories or their songs. Read about how survivorsā stories still resonate today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. uoft.me/8Lg


It was so fun to talk to U of T News about BBC Radio 3 documentary and the trip that Michael Rossi and Alice Zawadzki took to Uzbekistan to return Yiddish Glory to its roots.


Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ray Charles⦠and Yiddish Glory? Yes!! All part of this weekās Saturday Night Jazz w/ Laila Biali on CBC Music!! š Laila for the fantastic program cbc.ca/listen/live-raā¦


Yiddish Glory (Yiddish Glory): recommended BBC radio programme on how songs written by Jewish refugees in Central Asia are being brought back to life in a project led by University of Toronto historian Anna Shternshis (Anna Shternshis). bbc.co.uk/programmes/artā¦

An amazing article by Jeremy Stern in The Forward about Yiddish music written in memory of Isidor and Ida Straus, a Jewish couple that perished in the Titanic disaster forward.com/forverts-in-enā¦


Tonite's Boston Symphony concert brings 2 mind an earlier stirring "Babi Yar," written in 1947 in Yiddish, in #Ukraine about soldier who returns home to find his wife and child murdered by #nazis Yiddish Glory Recording Academy / GRAMMYs nominee

We invite you to our free musical event in London on 6th Sept, with The Wiener Holocaust Library RHUL Holocaust Research Institute UCL and Fortunoff Video Archive. This concert will include performances by musician Zisl Slepovitch from the āSongs From Testimoniesā project and Yiddish Glory Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-public-ā¦


Coming on 6 September at Conway Hall, a musical performance from Fortunoff Video Archive 'Songs from Testimonies' project and Yiddish Glory, including anti-fascist songs and music documenting Nazi atrocities that were discovered in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/free-pubā¦

On 6 September we're co-hosting a free public evening concert with Yiddish Glory and Fortunoff Video Archive at Conway Hall in London! It will include songs and poems discovered as part of the Songs from Testimonies Project, and the lost Yiddish music of WWII Book now: bit.ly/3DH7Doo

Yiddish Glory is coming to London on September 6th! Alice Zawadzki and her amazing band will do world and UK premieres of some songs from Beregovsky's archive. Come and say hi if you are in town, and get your free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-public-ā¦

First Yiddish event of Anne Tanenbaum CJS - a moderated discussion with Evgeny Kissin af yidish!! I honestly cannot wait! jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/yiddishā¦

It was so fun talking to Max Reinhardt about Yiddish Glory in London with Alice Zawadzki!

Our heartfelt thanks to the musicianship of Alice Zawadzki & Misha Mullov-Abbado Bruno Heinen for Yiddish Glory & musicianship of D. Zisl Slepovitch Sasha Lurje, Craig, Joshua & Dmitry for Songs from Testimonies last night. Thanks to Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership Shirli Gilbert, Anna Shternshis &tagged partners


It was really a pleasure to do such a meaningful double-bill with Fortunoff Video Archive and Yiddish Glory

Almost ready for the talk TEDxKazimierz with Alice Zawadzki on Yiddish Glory! My amazing Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Anne Tanenbaum CJS and @UofTGerman students and colleagues helped with the title: Who Will Sing How We Lived and Died? Yiddish music of Holocaust Refugees ted.com/tedx/events/52ā¦

On CBC Radio!! š Alan Neal for this interview on All in a Day with University of Toronto prof Anna Shternshis Anna Shternshis about Yiddish Gloryās Holocaust Remembrance Day concert on Thursday at National Arts Centre six degrees records cbc.ca/listen/live-raā¦

Well, it was really something, full house at National Arts Centre presenting Yiddish Glory with Alice Zawadzki, Psoy Korolenko and jeremy ledbetter still thinking about emotional roller coaster of the performance⦠as usual, no proper photoā¦


Radio in Ottawa!! š to David Dalle for this amazing program on CKCU 93.1 FM It features 3 projects I was fortunate to have been a part of: Payadoraās Silent Tears The Last Yiddish Tango Taraf Syriana Yiddish Glory (who were at National Arts Centre this week!) cod.ckcufm.com/programs/105/6ā¦