Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II - Evening Concert
Schedule
Wed Jan 04 2023 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Birkbeck, University of London | London, EN
About this Event
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II
Evening Concert
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour – International Conference
Performers: Psoy Korolenko, singer/songwriter and Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto
Date: Wednesday 4 January 2023
Time: 7.30pm-8.45pm
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7HX
This lecture-concert brings back to life Yiddish songs, recently discovered in the Vernadsky Ukrainian National Library, which were created in Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Written by women, children and amateur soldiers, these songs tell the story of how Soviet Jews made sense of World War II as it unfolded.
Performed in Yiddish by Grammy-nominated singer Psoy Korolenko, with narration by Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto.
Pavel Lion, a.k.a. Psoy Korolenko is a multilingual singer/songwriter. Known as a “wandering scholar” - he has a PhD in Russian Literature - his unique folk cabaret balances comic verses, ballads, Soviet songs, French Chanson, Klezmer and Tropicalia. He has released many CDs in solo and in collaboration with Daniel Kahn, Igor Krutogolov, Oy Division, Opa! and others. He collaborates on various projects including 'Yiddish Glory', 'The Brothers Nazaroff' and 'Defesa'.
Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Her publications include: Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Indiana University Press, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford University Press, 2017). She created and directed the Grammy-nominated 'Yiddish Glory' project, together with artist Psoy Korolenko, which brought back to life the forgotten Yiddish music written during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.
Where is it happening?
Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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