Yiddish Glory
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is a 61st Annual Grammy Awards nominated album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust. History. The team of a Russian Jewish ethnomusicologist and Yiddish scholar Moisei Beregovsky collected hundreds of Jewish songs during 1930–1940s, and planned to publish an anthology. However, during the post-war outbreak of Soviet anti-Semitism Beregovsky was convicted of "Jewish nationalism" and sent to Gulag. Fortunately, his confiscated archives were returned to his wife. The collection of wax cylinder recordings, of which 600  were made by Beregovsky, was looted by the Nazis, but returned after the war. However, when the Cabinet of Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences was liquidated, the recordings disappeared and were believed to be destroyed. In 1990s Beregovsky's wax cylinders were discovered and catalogued by the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. Since 1980s and later, with new findings, his collections were published and republished, and many tunes entered the repertoire of Klezmer musicians. Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor in Yiddish Studies and the Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the  University of Toronto worked with Beregovsky's paper archives, and "Yiddish Glory" is the result of a multi-year project of Shternshis and Pavel Lion, better known as Psoy Korolenko. Most of the selected Holocaust-related songs had only lyrics, and musical solutions for them were suggested by Sergei Erdenko. Track listing. From the Six Degrees Records website: Band. According to the Six Degrees Records webpage: Production. The producer is Daniel Rosenberg.