Thursday, April 9, 2026
Songs of the Silenced
A new instalment from the Yiddish Glory project revisits lost Yiddish songs from World War II ghettos and labour camps, though this time the themes are broader. “In ghettos, what they find funny is toilet humour”, hears Simon Broughton
Psoy Korolenko and Anna Shternshis
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