Fighting with Music: Yiddish Songs of World War II from Central Asia and Chuvashia
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A Lecture-Concert with Anna Shternshis & Psoy Korolenko
Hosted by the POLIN Museum
In 2018, Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko made history when their album Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II was nominated for a Grammy under the category of “World Music” as one of the only Yiddish-language recordings ever. With Yiddish Glory, Shternshis and Korolenko released a first selection of hundreds of Yiddish war songs that Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovskii had gathered within the microcosms of Jewish refugees, evacuees, soldiers, and Holocaust survivors in the Soviet Union and that were deemed lost until Shternshis unearthed them in a Ukrainian archive. The closing event on November 24, 2021, is the world premiere of Fighting with Music: Yiddish Songs of World War II from Central Asia and Chuvashia – Shternshis’ and Korolenko’s newest recordings of Beregovskii’s treasure trove.
To attend, CLICK THIS LINK at 2:00pm EST on Wednesday, November 24th.
