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Pop / Rock 12/01/2018

Historic Music Discovery - The Lost Songs Of WWII Uncovered In Yiddish Glory From Six Degrees Records Out Feb. 23

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Historic Music Discovery - The Lost Songs Of WWII Uncovered In Yiddish Glory From Six Degrees Records Out Feb. 23
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Six Degrees Records announced today the release of Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs from World War II, a new recording featuring Jewish songs created during the darkest chapter of European Jewish history that have never been performed before featuring Yiddish songwriters who died in the war.

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II roots began in the midst of World War II, when a group of scholars led by ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky (1892 - 1961) endeavored to preserve songs that were written by Jewish Red Army soldiers, refugees, victims and survivors of Ukrainian ghettos. Following the war, the researchers were arrested during Stalin's anti-Jewish purge. The scholars' works were confiscated, and they died thinking the collection was lost to history. In the early 2000s, a lucky coincidence brought University of Toronto Professor Anna Shternshis to Kiev where she learned that these songs had actually survived in the intervening decades following the researchers' arrests.

The result is Yiddish Glory, a remarkable collaboration between artist Psoy Korolenko, Shternshis, and Producer Dan Rosenberg who bring together an ensemble of elite soloists including vocalist Sophie Milman and Russia's greatest living Roma violinist Sergei Eredenko, to pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust and act as a warning against fascism. Also, included in the package is a 40+ page booklet featuring images of the original documents created during the Holocaust, text by Professor Shternshis, lyrics and detailed liner notes on the remarkable history of this collection of songs.

"Yiddish Glory gives voice to Jewish children, women, refugees whose lives were shattered by horrific violence of World War II," said Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies, University of Toronto. "The songs come to us from people, whose perspectives are rarely heard in reconstructing history, none of them professional poets or musicians, but all at the center of the most important historical event of the 20th century, and making sense of it through music. I cannot be more excited and humbled by this project that brings their voices back to life."

Many pieces in Yiddish Glory were the first grassroots testimonies of German atrocities against Jews, detailing massacres in Babi Yar, Tulchin and other places in Ukraine. The raw emotional ballads sung in Yiddish convey despair, hope, humor, bravery, resistance and revenge. One song was written by a 10-year-old orphan who lost his family in the ghetto in Tulchin, and another by a teenage prisoner of the Pechora concentration camp. For the first time, the public will hear the music of the Soviet Jews who were thought to be silenced by Hitler and Stalin on Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II.






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