Dan Rosenberg

Music producer: @YiddishGlory, @tarafsyriana, Silent Tears, The Rough Guide CD series + host/producer of the radio show Cafe International

[Dan Rosenberg @danrosenbergnet]

Today on NPR’s @hereandnow - Thanks to Jane Clayson for inviting me to speak about Ukrainian folk music and the horrors caused by Russia’s unprovoked war

Featuring:
Mariana Sadovska
DakhaBrakha
@YiddishGlory
Hudaki Village Band
Perkalaba
https://t.co/WluIpfbW6C

[Tom Haugen @Tomhaugen]

Yiddish Glory- The Silenced Songs Of World War II
#yiddishglory
https://t.co/0L0mgoX5io

[Juan Antonio Vázquez @joam_antom]

Mil mundos en Radio 5 #184 📜 ‍🎶💎 Joyas perdidas y encontradas de la música yidis / Lost and found gems of Yiddish music
📻 Radio 5 (Radio Nacional de España)
🎙️ Juan Antonio Vázquez
▶️ https://t.co/84LBnmS7gf
▶️ https://t.co/69tpl6Ur9M

Dos proyectos musicales totalmente >>

[Kevin Gausman @KevinGausman]

Just want to show my appreciation for all the people helping to stop these fires in Canada. To all the first responders, pilots, and anyone out there doing their part- Thank You!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[Rita Rosenfeld @rheytah]

In the midst of the Holocaust, a child sang a song about his mother’s death in the Bershad ghetto, a pocket of current-day Ukraine that was occupied by Romania and Nazi Germany. In the song, the child watches strangers come and pray for his mother, and other strangers carry her away to be buried, but none pay attention to him.

This story was discovered in a trove of 263 songs collected by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist who recorded Yiddish music from Jews in Ukraine just after they were liberated from the Romanian occupation in 1944.

The music rescued from the Holocaust was nearly lost in Joseph Stalin’s crackdown on Yiddish culture. Beregovsky was arrested in the Soviet Union in 1950, accused of “Jewish nationalism” and sent to a gulag for six years. The music was confiscated, and Beregovsky died in 1961. Only in the 1990s did librarians discover his collection in the basement of Ukraine’s Vernadsky National Library in Kyiv.

Now, the song about a mother’s death is one of 15 in “Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II,” an album released in April by Six Degrees Records. It was compiled by Anna Shternshis, a professor of Yiddish and Jewish studies at the University of Toronto, together with 17 musicians.
Shternshis took the album on tour in May to perform concerts across Asia, with stops in Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. The music project is complemented by a new book she published in June, “Postwar Life, Hopes, and Fears,” the latest in a series about the history of Soviet Jews published by New York University Press.

At first, Shternshis believed the song now titled “Dear Mama” gave an account of daily life in the Bershad ghetto, where more than 8,000 people died of hunger and disease. But the more she patched together testimonies and memoirs, the more she recognized a series of untruths.

Funerals were scarcely allowed in occupied Bershad, and public prayers for the dead were virtually impossible, said Shternshis. She realized that this song was fiction — an imagination of a dignified death.

“One of the biggest traumas that people had in the Bershad ghetto was that no one would notice the death,” Shternshis told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “So the song that did talk about the lack of empathy, but also talked about the funeral, was actually a fantasy that all these things would happen — a prayer, a grave.”

This is Shternshis’ second “Yiddish Glory” album aiming to resurrect music from witnesses of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Her first album in 2018, titled “Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II,” was nominated for a Grammy.

That project was the first she reaped from the discovery of Beregovsky’s documents, and it focused largely on songs collected from Russian soldiers who fought against the Nazis. The “Silenced Songs” album centers almost entirely on Jews who lived in the ghettos and concentration camps of Ukraine’s Vinnytsia region, which was occupied by Romania and Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.
Shira Li Bartov, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

[Juan Antonio Vázquez @joam_antom]

– Angelo Baselli & Gianluca Casadei – Soboloevski suite – Fun a vel vos iz nishto mer / Of a world that is no more: Klezmer treasures from Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
– Yiddish Glory – Obodivke camp – The silenced songs of World War II
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[Los Sonidos del Planeta Azul 🎙 Pódcast @lsplanetaazul]

#Pódcast [60 min]

Los SONIDOS del PLANETA AZUL · EDICIÓN EUROPEA 🎙 Pódcast | Ed nº 3395

WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE
‘Lista Europea de Ritmos Étnicos’ JUNIO 2026

🔊 https://t.co/WbqoLyb2sy

🎧 Escucha en la web del programa, o en tu plataforma de audio.

[Los Sonidos del Planeta Azul 🎙 Pódcast @lsplanetaazul]

#ReseñaDeDiscoDestacado

THE KLEZMATICS We Were Made For These Times

El grupo se creó en el East Village de NY, celebra su 40 aniversario como respuesta a un mundo fracturado, música como una vía de protesta, fe, alegría y solidaridad radical

Lee en👇
https://t.co/REid68N89Z

[Barakan Beat @barakanbeat]

#nowplaying Girma Woldemichael “Teyiqesh Tereji / Ask Around” #barakanbeat #findyourcolors #interfm

[The KlezmerShack @klezmershack]

There is a new volume of songs out of “Yiddish Glory,” the Silenced Songs of World War II.” Here is a neat interview with Dr. Anna Shternshis on the subject. #holocaust #jewishmusic
https://t.co/RNsEzwdTHQ

[Denis Vézina @DenisDvezine]

Parisa Karimi Molan & Tehrani Drom - Unveiled - PAN M 360 https://t.co/Sxx2O769go

[Dan Rosenberg @danrosenbergnet]

On @CBC Radio today!
🙏 Errol Nazareth for featuring a short interview segment with @UofT professor @shternsh Anna Shternshis about @YiddishGlory’s new album: The Silenced Songs of World War II @sixdegreesrcrds
The show starts at 3pm!
🙏 @CanadaCouncil @ONArtsCouncil @TorontoArts

[Los Sonidos del Planeta Azul 🎙 Pódcast @lsplanetaazul]

#ReseñaDeDisco

TEHRANI DROM & PARISA KARIMI MOLAN Unveiled

Lee la reseña completa, te dejo el enlace 👇👇👇
https://t.co/vNo3rE5lE6

[Los Sonidos del Planeta Azul 🎙 Pódcast @lsplanetaazul]

#ReseñaDeDisco

DAUGHTERS OF DONBAS Songs of Stolen Children

La cantante ucraniano-canadiense Marichka lidera un conjunto exclusivamente femenino que se ha volcado en la interpretación de canciones profundamente emotivas...

Te dejo el enlace en 👇👇👇

https://t.co/gvHsm0opxt

[Expresso @expresso]

Daughters of Donbas: vamos ouvir canções ucranianas de protesto https://t.co/reOzkrEUUY

[坂本雅司 @griot_sakamoto]

#世界辺境音楽研究、イラン🇮🇷伝統的なペルシャ民俗音楽と現代音楽の要素を融合。サントゥール奏者率いる Amir Amiri ensembleの新作 『Metamorphose』https://t.co/JEoZ2eKnRP

[six degrees records @sixdegreesrcrds]

The Grammy-nominated Yiddish Glory returns with a powerful follow-up to their acclaimed debut that brought lost, wartime Yiddish music back from the brink of oblivion. These are words that the war tried to erase. This album refuses to let it. https://t.co/VxYOguvQO4

[New Model Rádio @Gregor_Agency]

📷 Projekt Daughters of Donbas uvádza album „Songs of Stolen Children“.

Piesne založené na svedectvách detí unesených do Ruska. Spolupráca držiteľky ceny Amnesty International a Grammy-nominovaného producenta.

Viac o tomto artivizme: https://t.co/Lo366YLnhF
#DaughtersOfDonbas

[世界の音楽情報 Música Terra（ムジカテーハ） @musica_terra]

【新着】ウクライナ発の女性グループ、Daughters of Donbas が音楽で告発するロシアの戦争犯罪│Musica Terra https://t.co/v7TJHF0l1p

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

Spotlight - Being an artist and a refugee: Amir Amiri and Parisa Karimi Molan speak to France 24
➡️ https://t.co/05Bz41N88k

[Barakan Beat @barakanbeat]

#nowplaying Daughters Of Donbas “4.5.0.” #barakanbeat #findyourcolors #interfm