Yiddish Glory News Today

A special show today as I am joined by guest Professor Anna Shternshis, who is Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She was instrumental in recovering lost songs from Soviet ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky, who wrote down hundreds of new Yiddish songs in the Soviet Union during WWII. These songs were written mostly by amateurs, Jewish soldiers in the Red Army, Jewish wives and mothers working on the home f...

From joyful love songs to mournful laments, the depth of emotion conveyed through music represents a vast range of human experience.

At the JetLAG festival in Downsville, New York, exiled Russian and Ukrainian musicians will perform at the largest festival of its kind.

Bangkok's resident Irish music expert Prof Mick Moloney recently journeyed back to his old stomping ground in New York to perform with his musical mates at the annual Irish Heritage Concert at St Patrick's Cathedral. The concert is held each year to celebrate St Patrick's Day. This year it was held on March 10.

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel