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August 1, 2019

The Lost Yiddish Songs of the Soviet Holocaust, Revived

Stalin made the Shoah a taboo subject.

As a matter of policy, the USSR suppressed efforts to commemorate the Holocaust as an event distinct from the suffering of the Soviet nation as a whole. Thus a remarkable trove of songs and poems written by Jews caught up in the Final Solution was long kept in obscurity—until last month, when a professor and a musician teamed up to perform them in Tel Aviv. Aron Heller writes:

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August 1, 2019

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