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Yiddish Glory: How a Grammy nomination sprang from a Canadian prof's chance discovery
'Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II' nominated in World Music Grammy category
Hobbs, Greg http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/national-yiddish-glory-moisei-beregovsky-shternshis-grammy-1.49
Publisher: CBC
Date Written: 09/02/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
A collection of WWII era Soviet Yiddish music went from an archive to a Grammy-winning album. The collection revealed much new information about Soviet Jews.
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When Yiddish Studies Professor Anna Shternshis was sifting through documents at the Verdansky National Library of Ukraine in the early 2000s, the idea that her work would lead to a scholarly breakthrough and a Grammy-nominated album in 2019 was inconceivable.
Shternshis, who teaches at the University of Toronto, was working on a project about the decline of Yiddish in the Soviet Union when a librarian directed her to a barely-catalogued batch of songs....
In looking for ways to elevate her academic presentation on the Beregovsky collection, Shternshis enlisted the help of Russian musician and composer Psoy Korolenko.
Many of the songs were preserved only as sheets of lyrics, so the two of them embarked on a collaboration to set those lyrics to music.
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