Return of Yiddish Glory
Prof. Anna Shternshis and the musician Psoy Korolenko produced a new music album based on songs from Moisey Beregovsky’s archive, Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II. Unlike their previous 2018 Grammy-nominated album, Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WW2, which resurrects anti-fascist songs of Jewish Red Army soldiers and partisans, the new production features songs of Holocaust survivors of the camps and ghettos.
Moisey Beregovsky (1892–1961) was an outstanding figure in Soviet musicology, a scholar who almost single-handedly preserved the treasures of Jewish folk music. The new album includes several performers. Psoy Korolenko, the primary male vocalist, is joined by the UK-based singer Alice Zawadzki, who performs in Yiddish for the first time and plays violin as well. Other singers include the Toronto-based cantor Simon Spiro.