Events
Yiddish Glory: Songs of Holocaust in Ukraine Concert & Lecture
12 May 2026
Date: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Lee Hysan Concert Hall, CUHK
Prof. Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto)
Mr. Psoy Korolenko (singer-songwriter)
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Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko (New York) and historian Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto), bring to life long lost Yiddish songs of the World War II in this all-new concert and lecture program. Collected by Moisei Beregovsky and other scientists of the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture, these previously unknown Yiddish songs were confiscated and hidden by the Soviet government in 1949, and have only recently come to light. They tell stories of how Soviet Jews became refugees in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, lived and died under the German occupation, used music to document Nazi atrocities, fought in the Red Army, worked in the home front, and made sense of it all through Yiddish music. Created by Soviet Jewish women, children and men who never got to tell their stories, none of these songs were known until they were accidentally discovered in the basement of the Ukrainian National Library in the 1990s.
