World Music Matters

World music matters - Yiddish Glory album breathes new life into lost Soviet Jewish WWII songs


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As war raged through Europe, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars began recording stories, poems and songs by Jewish men, women and children living - and dying - in Nazi-occupied Soviet Union. Never published, they were rediscovered in Kiev in the late 90s. Now these moving, stirring and sometimes slapstick songs have been brought to life through an international recording project.
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World Music MattersBy RFI English

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