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| These long-lost Yiddish songs from WW II tell tales of Jewish resistance and survival |
| 2018-12-08 |
| [CBC] A new album of recently unearthed Yiddish songs counters the Second World War narrative of Jewish people as passive victims of Nazi soldiers. Titled Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, the album features 17 songs written by Soviet Jews during the war telling tales of resilience and resistance. Some are written by soldiers of the Red Army, with powerful lyrics about the Jewish people's survival of attempted genocide throughout history, or graphic descriptions about fighting Nazi soldiers on the battlefield. "This rage against the German army is the rage of a soldier fighting the war," Anna Shternshis, a University of Toronto Yiddish studies professor, told As It Happens host Carol Off. "We get that raw emotion only from materials from songs like this written during the time of the war. Because once the war is over, people start moving on. They start thinking about how they make sense of their lives now." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 I wonder if Rantburgers have heard of the poem "Dos lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn folk" written by Itzhak Katzenelson, who was murdered in Auschwitz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Katzenelson I haven't been able to find a full English translation. It was translated into German by East German songwriter Wolf Biermann. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-12-08 14:15 |