Forgotten Jewish history. PODCAST #14 Yiddish Glory

The Yiddish Glory producers tell forgotten Jewish history from the 1940s. Why do Jewish people refer to Kazakhstan as "heaven for Jews"? A Conversation with Gia Noortas.
Producers of the Grammy nominated project Yiddish Glory, tell a fascinating story not only about the forgotten pages of Jewish survival in Kazakhstan, but also stories about the Jewish people who have written those songs.

Yiddish Glory
Kazakhstan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_mBheE9NeU

Biographies of the producers of
the Grammy nominated project:

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. She received her doctoral degree (DPhil) from Oxford University in 2001. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (Indiana UP, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford UP, 2017). Together with artist Psoy Korolenko, Shternshis created and directed the Grammy-nominated Yiddish Glory project, an initiative that brought back to life forgotten Yiddish music written during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. A recipient of 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Last Yiddish Heroes: A Lost and Found Archive of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union about Yiddish music created in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

Dan Rosenberg - journalist and music producer Dan Rosenberg has travelled to more than 40 countries, reporting about arts and culture for Afropop Worldwide, Cafe International, CBC radio and other outlets. Rosenberg has also worked as a producer on more than 60 albums, including Yiddish Glory’s Grammy-nominated Lost Songs of World War II as well as dozens of recordings for the Rough Guide to World Music series

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oisinlunny/2019/02/11/grammy-nominated-yiddish-glory-project-resurrects-music-that-stalin-and-hitler-tried-to-silence/?sh=15343d8c772a

“Sasha Baron Cohen portrays Borat, a bumbling Kazakh who’s racist, sexist and virulently anti-Semitic. He jokes about Kazakhstan being a nation where Jews are hated. Yet the reality is very different. Long abused by the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan today is a pluralistic country with a small but flourishing Jewish life”.
~ Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Read full article at:
https://www.aish.com/jw/s/The-Truth-about-Jews-and-Kazakhstan.html?mobile=yes

More information:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oisinlunny/2019/02/11/grammy-nominated-yiddish-glory-project-resurrects-music-that-stalin-and-hitler-tried-to-silence/?sh=15343d8c772a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_vcOxtYD8

https://www.aish.com/jw/s/The-Truth-about-Jews-and-Kazakhstan.html?mobile=yes

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