The forgotten songs are returning to people

Anna Shternshis, Associate Professor of Yiddish studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto invites listeners in Melbourne to a very interesting lecture. We have asked Anna to share this incredible story - about thousands of Yiddish songs from Soviet Jews living through the Holocaust, found in archive of scientific department of the Ukrainian academy of Sciences are restored to life by efforts of enthusiasts of the project, first of them - Pavel Lyon better known under his stage persona of Psoy Korolenko.

Anna Shternshis at SBS Source: SBS

Machine Guns and Orphans: Soviet Yiddish Music of World War II

Wednesday, 16 August, 7.30PM,

Caulfield Campus, Monash University,

H1.16 Ground Floor, Building H 900 Dandenong Road

Caulfield East

Some of the recovered songs