‘Yiddish glory’ collects long-long songs

Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:00am

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"Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II" are new recordings of forgotten tunes written by Jews from the ghettos in Ukraine. Anna Shternshis, a professor at the University of Toronto, found these songs locked in an archive in Kiev. Marco Werman speaks to Shternshis about the collection.

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