The city, once home to thousands of Jewish refugees, will be one of the first places in East Asia where the songs are brought back to life
Lost anti-fascist Yiddish language songs from World War II will be making their Asian debut this month.
The project is the brainchild of University of Toronto academic Anna Shternshis, who said Shanghai’s own history gave the choice of venue an extra significance, and songwriter and musician Psoy Korolenko.
Their performances, which combine live music with lectures, will be only the third Yiddish-language concerts in mainland China over the past 60 years, according to producer Daniel Rosenberg.
Shternshis and Korolenko have produced two albums of Yiddish music – 2016’s Grammy-nominatedYiddish Glory:The Lost Songs of World War IIandThe Silenced Songs of WWIIfrom this year – that were first collected by Soviet ethnologist Moisei Beregovsky in the 1930s and 40s.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
