PRESS
"Haunting... Remarkable" - Carol Off, Listen HERE to the 28-minute interview with Anna Shternshis about Yiddish Glory on CBC's As It Happens (March 30, 2018)
'You're Not My First Enemy': In Long-Lost Jewish Songs of WWII, Pain and Defiance - "A minor miracle" - Andy Hermann, NPR Music (March 7, 2018)
"Long-lost Yiddish songs tell first hand stories of Soviet Jews during the Second World War" - Pavni Mittal, ABC News (April 8, 2018)
"Searingly Eloquent" - Howard Reich, The Chicago Tribune (May 8, 2018)
“A life-changing event for the Jewish people and musical history.”
-Marilyn Lightstone, Nocturne, Classical 96.3 FM
"Yiddish Songs from WWII Brought Back to Life" - Newsday, BBC World Service (Feb 26, 2018)
"Yiddish Glory gives voice to once-lost Soviet Jewish WWII songs" - Renee Ghert-Zand, Times of Israel (April 12, 2018)
"Truly Haunting... extraordinary... It's a remarkable labour of love and is brilliantly executed." (Top of the World Review) - Simon Broughton, Songlines Magazine (June 2018)
"Proufoundly Moving" - Dan Epstein, The Forward (June 21, 2018)
"Sensational" - Mirjam Jessa, ORF (25-minute feature on Austria's national public radio) (in German) (March 21, 2018)
"Moving, stirring" "Yiddish Glory album breathest new life into lost Soviet Jewish WWII songs" - Alison Hird, RFI (Radio France International) (May 17, 2018)
"Miraculous...A stunning artistic achievement, as emblematic and moving as the cannon of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture." - Alan Tigay, World Listening Post (May 3, 2018)
**** (4 Stars) "...the kicking that Hitler gets in "On the high mountain" leaps joyfully across the language barrier." David Hutcheon, Mojo Magazine (July 2018)
“Extraordinary” - Matt Galloway, CBC Metro Morning
“The Inglorious Basterds of Yiddish Music” - Judy Maltz, Haaretz
"Terrific... Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II on The Hub on Stage" - Michael Cathcart, ABC RN (Australian Broadcasting Corp, National Radio) (May 28, 2018)
"Defiant... Truly moving" - John Clewley, The Bangkok Post (July 10, 2018)
"Bringing 'Lost' Yiddish Songs of World War II Back to Life" (20 minute NPR feature) - Frank Stasio, NPR's "The State of Things"
"Anna Shternshis über Yiddish Glory" (Interview on DeutschlandRadio.de, German public radio) Tonart w/ Mathias Mauersberger (in German) (June 27, 2018)
**** (4 Stars) "It's a moving and inspiring window into a lost world." (Scroll down) - Simon Brougton, The Evening Standard (London, UK) (March 2, 2018)
Yiddish Glory is #5 on World Music Charts Europe, April 2018 (from WMCE's panel of DJs and journalists across 24 European countries).
"An Extraordinary Discovery... It's hard not to be moved by this music" - James Carleton, ABC's "God Forbid" (Australian Broadcasting Network - national broadcast on November 5, 2017) (Interview with Anna Shtershis about Yiddish Glory is at 39:00 into program).
"Incredible research and documentation... If there ever was a reason to buy a hard copy [of a CD], this is it..." - Bernard Clarke, The Blue of the Night (RTE, Irish National Radio) (20-minute feature on Yiddish Glory, Part 1 of a series, starts at 1:43:30) (July 16, 2018) Quote from part 3: "It is not only gold, musically speaking, the presentation, the amount of detail, the research here is top notch." (July 18, 2018)
Interview with “Professor Anna Shternshis on honouring a destroyed culture” - Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail
"An amazing new disc... fascinating" - Petroc Trelawny, BBC Radio 3 Classical Breakfast (March 1, 2018) (Segment starts at 2:04:20 into broadcast)
Long lost Yiddish songs documenting horrors Jews experienced during World War II to be performed at UC Irvine - In-depth article on the Yiddish Glory project by Deepa Bharath, Orange County Register (Feb 19, 2018)
"Few albums come along that are as moving as Yiddish Glory... Invaluable material... living voices from one of the most destructive and bloody chapters in humanity's recent history... Instant classics" - Enrique Blanc, Ocio Magazine (May 11, 2018) (In Spanish)
"What an incredible discovery" - WUOT's Garrett McQueen (Tennessee NPR) on the program "Afternoon Concert" with Professor Anna Shternshis about the Yiddish Glory project (that was featured at the University of Tennessee's McClung Museum)
L'Chaim! Project Brings Lost Soviet Yiddish Tunes to Life - Lake Effect (WUWM, Milwaukee NPR)
"A strangely uplifting testament to the indomitable resilience of the human spirit, even when experiencing indescribable horror." - Recommended / Critics Picks fRoots Magazine (Summer 2018 Issue)
“Profound, joyous, and very moving. A creative lesson in resistance, resilience” - Cathernine Kustanczy, The Opera Queen (May 13, 2018)
"Startling firsthand accounts of the horrors of the Holocaust" - Antoni Nerestant, CBC-Television (May 19, 2018) and CBC World Report (radio) (May 14, 2018)
"Reviving WWII era songs against fascism" (interview with Professor Anna Shternshis) i24News (Israel) (June 18, 2018)
"Exceptional... Very Touching" (A 60-minute radio program about Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II) - Helene Engel, Shalom Montreal (in French) (May 12, 2018)
"Incredible...Such an important project" - Aaron Keck, WCHL-Radio. 20 minute interview on CBS Radio in North Carolina about Yiddish Glory.
"Revelatory...offering listeners a window into Holocaust history unavailable until now." (Scroll down) - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune (May 2, 2018)
“The Songs of survival, heartbreak and resisance… represent the real voice of people living through World War II” - CBC News and Yahoo News
13-minute radio feature on "The Ingorius Basterds of Yiddish Music" - Arne Berg & Sigbjørn Nedland NRK (Norway's National Public Broadcaster) (in Norwegian) Yiddish Glory report starts at 43:55 (March 17, 2018)
"Extremely Touching" - Didier Melon / RTBF's (Belgium's national French-language broadcaster) Le Monde est un Village (12-minute piece on Yiddish Glory starts at 44:25 into program) (in French) (March 13, 2018)
Mundofonias Episode #19 includes: "The Interesting Story Behind Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II" (Radio program on 42 stations in 16 countries) (In Spanish) Listen Here (Yiddish Glory segment starts at 5:00) (March 12, 2018)
"How music brought to light experiences of Jewsh life during the Holocaust in Ukraine" - Nana Aba Dunca - CBC Fresh Air (April 15, 2018)
"Hitler is Kaput", 24-minute feature on Italian public radio with host Marcello Lorrai, Radio Populare, Musiche dal Mondo (in Italian) (March 12, 2018)
Interview with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko: “Vengeance and Loss, Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust” - Sing Out Magazine
"Groundbreaking... Yiddish Glory is both time capsule and cultural treasure."- Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet Magazine (Jan 2018)
"An epic album" - Heather Kitching, Roots Music Canada (May 9, 2018)
"Un admirabil proiect etno-muzical: „Cîntecele pierdute ale celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. Idiș Gloria" Article and radio report by Victor Eskenasy, Radio Europe Libera (Radio Free Europe, Moldova & Romania) (in Romanian) (May 25, 2018)
"An exceptional CD... wonderful" - Review by Itzik Gottsman, Yiddish Forward (in Yiddish) (May 25, 2018)
"Anna Shternshis on Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II" - Nick Pavlik, Archives Aware (June 14, 2018)
"Sublime... Poignant" - Moors Magazine (in Dutch) (June 29, 2018)
"One of the most popular and successful Yiddish cultural projects of recent years that brings together important historical research and original creativity" - Review by Mikhail Krutikov, Yiddish Forward (in Yiddish) (March 15, 2018)
"Musical archaeologists provice voice for the voiceless: Yiddish Glory album presents songs by survivors, victims" - Robert Wiener, New Jersey Jewish News (April 18, 2018)
"Yiddish Glory: Long before Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” told the graphic story of revenge against the Nazis, it was the subject of Yiddish songs"- JLife (California) (Feb 2018)
Silenced for years, songs of Soviet Jews heard again in all their 'Yiddish Glory' - Jewish News of Northern California (Feb 2018)
"Testimony of how individuals resisted fascism, maintiained hope and dreams, even in their final days." Esmerelda Moberg, Sveriges Radio (in Swedish) (July 14, 2018)
"Superb" - Part of a 16-minute Yiddish Glory radio feature on Barcelona's Demesenlla (which is carried on more than 3 dozen stations in Spain and Mexico). Listen HERE (Yiddish Glory feature starts at 1:43:49) (June 21, 2018)
"Goosebumps are guaranteed" - Tim Ianna, Tropicalidad.be (in Flemish) (July 14, 2018)
"The touching music of a lost world is new and more brilliant than ever." - Marianne Berna, Kultur-Tipp (Switzerland) (In German) (April 26, 2018)
“What a find… Deeply Intense” - Ted Woloshyn, CFRB Radio (Toronoto)
“Compelling…Outstanding” - The Whole Note
"Wonderful" - Bill Anderson, Classical 96.3 FM
"Fascinating" The Story Behind the Discovery of the Lost Songs of World War II" - Schmooze, The Yiddish Book Center Podcast with Lisa Newman (March 10, 2018)
“Like a time capsule from 1945” Buried Soviet-Era Yiddish Tunes Come to Life” - Canadian Jewish News
Yiddish Glory on Sveriges Radio (Swedish National Radio, Klingan) (Yiddish Glory segment starts at 34:20) (in Swedish) (April 21, 2018)
Yiddish Glory on BBC's Caschlar: A World of Music with Brian Mullen (In Irish Gaelic) (Segment starts at 1:25:55) (July 14, 2018)
"Yiddish Glory is one of the best albums from the Jewish world in recent months" - Grit Friedrich, MDR (German Public Radio) (in German) (May 30, 2018)
"The large audience in Munich was captivated by professor Anna Shternshis" Ellen Presser, Juedische Allemeine (in German) (July 5, 2018)
Yiddish Glory on ORF (Austrian National Public Radio), Spielraume with Albert Hosp (in German) (Yiddish Glory segment starts at 17:40:20 into program) (March 6 2018)
Yiddish Glory on SirusXM/Canada Talks with Eric Alper (20 minute interview) (July 7, 2018)
“iets bijzonders” ("Something special") Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WWII on De Sandwich Starts at 45:48 during 9am show (in Dutch) Jacques Klöters NPORadio5 (Netherlands’ Public Radio) (July 22, 2018)
"ZTRACENÉ ŽIDOVSKÉ PÍSNĚ O HOLOCAUSTU... Židovský Alan Lomax" (Lost Jewish Songs of the Holocaust... A Jewish Alan Lomax) (in Czech) - Jiri Moravcic, Kulturni Magazin (April, 2018)
Vaybertaytsh Podcast interview (in Yiddish) with Anna Shternshis about the Yiddish Glory project
Article in Yiddish Foward about Yiddish Glory and the Vaybertaytsh podcast (in Yiddish)
Yiddish Radio Winnipeg - entire program on Yiddish Glory (in Yiddish) to commemorate Yom HaShoah on CJKS, with host Raquel Zucker (April 8, 2018)
Interview with Anna Shternshis about the Yiddish Glory project - Елена Сарашевская, Birobidzhan's Gazetaeao (in Yiddish) (May 10, 2018)
"In my long experience, I can recall only a couple of cases when the monitored album would raise a whole cultural layer that was firmly forgotten or was considered lost. It was such a rare event that became the project Yiddish Glory." - Leonid Aukskern JazzQuad.ru (Minsk, Belurussia) (in Russian) (July 21, 2018)
"A fascinating part of musical history" - Review in Rebel Base (July 18, 2018)
"Highly Recommended" - Review by Gregg Shapiro in Living Out Magazine (Mar/April 2018 issue, page 37)
"The Songs on Yiddish Glory now have a chance to be heard and enjoyed by a large audience. Highly recommended." - Review by Gregg Shapiro in Peach Magazine (May 23, 2018, page 30)
"Few albums can stir the soul let alone give voice to such harrowing anguish... Yiddish Glory is not just a reminder or even just a revelation, but a beautifully produced performance.” (Scroll down) - Dominic Valvona, Monolith Cocktail (Scotland) (July 24, 2018)
"Extraordinary... A remarkable album" - Nigel Wood, DublinCityFM (April 30, 2018)
Yiddish Glory album gives new life to Jewish folk music during WWII - Reut Cohen, The Varsity (April 1, 2018)
Ismeretlen jiddis dalok a II. világháborúból (Unknown Songs from World War II) (Article in Hungarian) Szombat Mazagine (April 6, 2018)
Yiddish Glory is "A delight... a remarkable album." Review by Ari Davidow, Klezmer Shack (July 7, 2018)
"Wonderful" - Paul Hartman / Detour Radio (WTMD, Baltimore Public Radio) (Yiddish Glory segment starts at 31:27) (March 25, 2018)
RTVi: Hour-long TV interview with Professor Anna Shternshis about the Yiddish Glory project: Анна Штерншис, профессор Торонтского университета в программе "Час интервью" (in Russian)
Гости студии (музыкант Сергей Эрденко о проекте Yiddish Glory) (47-Minute radio interview with Yiddish Glory violinist/arranger/composer Sergei Erdenko) (March 7, 2018) - Гости студии (in Russian)
"Yiddish Glory без сомнения, станет частью мировой истории" ("Yiddish Glory, no doubt, will be part of world history" (Article in Russian) - Russian Express
"Wonderful" - Elena DeLa Santa Piedra, Planet Music (Greece) (June 21, 2018)
Discovering Lost Jewish Songs from World War II - Lilith Magazine (July 2018)
Yiddish Glory on Izvorišta / Potlista w/ Emir Fulurija (17 minute feature, starts at 49:38 into program) (in Croatian) (June 27, 2018)
Yiddish Glory feature (in German) on Mundophon Radio (in Luxembourg) w/ host Willi Klopottek (Yiddish Glory segment about women who served in the Red Army to fight the Nazis starts at 1:33:25) (April 4, 2018)
Yiddish Glory on YLE 1 - Finland (in Finnish) (Finland's National Broadcasting Company) part of a program by Harri Tuomisen on best new World Music (April 6, 2018)
"Yiddish Glory" celebrates the bravery and resistance of Soviet Jews, as well as their hope, humour, and despair." - Wally Brooker, The People's Voice (May 1, 2018)
"Album inédito recupera la Musica estrita por Judios que escapaban del Holocausto", Tommy O'Callaghan, Russia Beyond and iEvenn (in Spanish)
"Yiddish Summer" in Weimar: Vor dem Lied kommt die Stille (Article in German) - Thueringer Allgemeine
Psoy Korolenko ist ein Protagonist auf dem Album "Yiddish Glory The Lost Songs of World War II", gesammelt haben diese Lieder hellsichtige sowjetische Ethnomusikologen, da tobte der Krieg in ihrem Land (Feature in German) - Grit Friedrich, MDR (German Public Radio) (April 11, 2018)
Yiddish Glory feature on Global Village, PBS-FM (Australia) with Roger Holdsworth (Segment starts at 25:20) (April 22, 2018)
Yiddish Glory on "The Road to Higher Ground", Wisconsin Public Radio (June 23, 2018)
20+ minute Yiddish Glory feature during Sounds From Other Lands radio program on anti-war & protest music w/ host Dawn Delaney, Phoenix FM Australia (April 29, 2018)
Yiddish Songs from the Second World War Returned to Life / Песни на идише времен Второй мировой войны вернулись к жизни - L'Chaim (In Russian) (Feb 27, 2018)
"Amazing" Yiddish Glory: The Return of Forgotten Songs (Radio Interview) Sima Tsyskin - SBS Radio (in Russian) (August 16, 2017)
Yiddish Glory on Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Sounds Jewish (part of a special program on Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day, w/ host Andy Muchin (April 7, 2018)
"Once-confiscated Yiddish songs gain public forum at Vanderbilt" - T. Gregory, The Jewish Observer (January 31, 2018)
"A fascinating glimpse into a little-known part of Jewish history" - Evan Casey, UWM Post (March 29, 2017)
Jazz singer glories in Yiddish music a month after giving birth” (Interview with Sophie Milman) - My Town Crier
Lost Yiddish songs of the Holocaust brought to life at Northwestern - Mohammed Abdelfattah, Northwestern Life (May 11, 2018)
"Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WWII is one of the most important presentations that has come along in years" - Phil Sayback, Phil's Picks (April 13, 2018)
"The Lost Songs of World War II" - Steve Cushion, Socialist History Society UK (Article is on pages 7-8) (Summer 2018 issue)
"Fascinating" 18-minute interview and feature with Anna Shternshis on KTOE News with host Dustin Wilmes (Minnesota) (Feb 18, 2018)
Interview with Anna Shternshis about Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II on "The Revolution Starts Here" with Art Menius, WCOM Chapel Hill & Carrboro NC
Recovering and Performing Soviet Jewish Holocaust Music - Purdue Explorer (April 23, 2018)
Yiddish Glory on CKIA's Le Voyage Imaginaire (in French) w/ host Alain Lalancette, Quebec City, Canada (July 17, 2018)
Recommended Concerts / 2018 Summer Music Guide - The Whole Note (scroll down) (June 2018)
Yiddish Glory: #7 on Earshot's International chart (March 2018)
Yiddish Glory: #1 on MergingArts radio chart (March 6, 2018)
Yiddish Glory: #1 on CFRU International chart (March 13, 2018)
Yiddish Glory: #1 on WUMD Rocks World Chart (March 6, 2018)
Yiddish Glory: Featured in the TransGlobal World Music Chart for 4 consecutive months (March-June 2018)