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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
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