Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, Audio/Music CD

Step back into the 1930s and 1940s with these new recordings of a rare and poignant cache of songs that were lost in time for decades. The melodies are at once melancholy and swing into a snappy rhythm that will have you dancing round your kitchen or wherever you find yourself as you listen. Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is the new recording of music created during the darkest chapter of European Jewish history. In the midst of World War II, a group of scholars led by ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 1961) discovered songs written by Jewish Red Army soldiers, refugees, victims and survivors of Ukrainian ghettos.  One song was written by a 10-year-old orphan who lost his family in the ghetto in Tulchin, another by a teenage prisoner of the Pechora concentration camp, and yet another about a Red Army soldier who learns, upon his return to Kiev, that his family had been murdered in Babi Yar. These were the people, whose voices are rarely heard in reconstructing