Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs Of World War II

As World War II raged through Europe, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars embarked on an ambitious goal to preserve Jewish culture of the 1940s. These linguists, folklorists, and historians believed that it was their immediate duty to record stories, anecdotes, poems and songs by Jews who lived through the most painful part of their history. Soviet ethnomusicologists from the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Proletarian Culture, led by Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 1961), recorded hundreds of new Yiddish songs: tunes th