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CKCU: Yiddish Glory, lost Jewish songs of WWII, with guest Professor Anna Shternshis. Farewell to Rashid Khan. - David Dalle
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 front, as well as refugees and survivors of Nazi terror in Poland and Ukraine. Beregovsky hoped to pu...
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A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
From November 14 to December 3, 1963, a Soviet Jewish delegation came to the United States for a multi-city tour that took them to New York, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with many side trips to historic sites and universities.
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At Amherst's Yiddish Book Center, a new exhibition speaks volumes about Yiddish as 'a global culture'
Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, "you don’t have the full story."
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