Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Feb. 1, 2021
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding,or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________ Slepovitch and Lurje Discuss 'Songs From Testimonies' Wed Feb 3 2021 on The Yiddish Voice On Wednesday February 3 2021 at 7:30 PM EST, *The Yiddish Voice* will air an interview, in Yiddish, with Sasha Lurje and Zisl Slepovitch, discussing the Songs From Testimonies project, which collects and records songs and poems discovered in the testimonies of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. The songs are sung in a variety of languages, including Yiddish, Polish, and French, from both the prewar period as well as from the ghettos and camps during the war. All were found among individual testimonies recorded by survivors for the Fortunoff Archive. The Archive's musician-in-residence, Zisl Slepovitch, took the songs, conducted research about their origins, and then arranged and recorded versions with his ensemble, featuring singer Sasha Lurje. The project has resulted in two albums, *Where Is Our Homeland? Songs From Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 1*, released in 2019, and * שרײַ, הערצעלע, שרײַ! Cry, My Heart, Cry!, Songs from Testimonies, Volume 2*, which was just released in 2021 for streaming and download and is soon to be available on CD and vinyl. *Zisl Slepovitch*, producer and artistic director of the recordings, arranged all the tracks and also contributed as composer, lyrics translator, additional vocalist, and musical instrumentalist on most of the tracks. A native of Minsk, Belarus, he is a musicologist (Ph.D., Belarusian State Academy of Music); a multi-instrumental klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician; a composer and poet; and a music and Yiddish educator. He is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Litvakus, Minsker Kapelye, and Zisl Slepovitch Trio. Additional info at his web site: http://dmitrislepovitch.com *Sasha Lurje*, the main vocalist of the recordings, is an internationally renowned Yiddish singer, born in Riga, Latvia, and now based in Berlin, Germany. She is the featured singer of several Yiddish music bands and projects, including Forshpil, Litvakus, STRANGELOVESONGS with Daniel Kahn, Semer Ensemble, and You Shouldn’t Know from It. Additional info at her web site: https://sashalurje.com <https://www.sashalurje.com/> This past week, on Jan 27, Slepovitch and Lurje streamed live to debut and introduce the most recently recorded songs, along with video recordings of the musicians performing, COVID-style in video boxes. The live-stream replay is available now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/101650124837284/videos/530750214557627/ For additional information and to hear the music from the Songs From Testimonies project, visit: https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/education/songs-from-testimonies/ *The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / דאָס ייִדישע קול)*, Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard in the Boston area every Wednesday on WUNR 1600 AM from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern) and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com. The podcast is also generally available directly on the web shortly after the broadcast here: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/ Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as: Apple Podcasts and iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yiddish-voice-podcast/id915622071?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n8zB32RXs7rDFsf7fguOO Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/yiddish%20voice For more information visit www.yiddishvoice.com, email [email protected], follow @TheYiddishVoice on Twitter, or call 617-730-8484. -- Mark David ________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like). 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