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How lost Yiddish songs from a Ukrainian ghetto revive links to Shanghai’s past

South China Morning Post · · 164 words · By Jordyn Haime
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“The city [Shanghai], once home to thousands of Jewish refugees”
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The web search result from a news source explicitly mentions that 'some 18,000 Jewish refugees found [refuge in Shanghai]', confirming the city was home to thousands of Jewish refugees.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shanghai is the world's second largest city by scientific outputs and home to several highly ranked universities, including Fudan, Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tongji. [16] The Shanghai Metro, first opened …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai
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web search NEUTRAL — Have no idea what to do in Shanghai? Don't worry. This well-selected list of things to do in Shanghai will stop you from missing any of the highlights.
https://www.chinahighlights.com/shanghai/top-things-to-do.ht…
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web search NEUTRAL — The world's third-largest city, Shanghai blends rich history, fabulous food and a legendary skyscraping skyline. Here are the top things to do.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/top-things-to-do-in-sh…
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“Lost anti-fascist Yiddish language songs from World War II will be making their Asian debut this month.”
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A news source explicitly states that 'Lost anti-fascist Yiddish language songs from World War II will be making their Asian debut this month' and mentions performances in Shanghai.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, abbreviated as JAC, was an organization created in the Soviet Union during World War II to influence international public opinion and organize political and material…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (Yiddish: שלמה מיכאעלס [also spelled שלוימע מיכאעלס during the Soviet era]; Russian: Cоломон (Шлойме) Михоэлс; 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Soviet a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Mikhoels
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust. It was nominated for the 61st Annual Gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_Glory
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“The project is the brainchild of University of Toronto academic Anna Shternshis... and songwriter and musician Psoy Korolenko.”
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Wikipedia confirms Anna Shternshis is a professor at the University of Toronto and Psoy Korolenko is a songwriter/performer. A web source (yiddish-culture.com) explicitly links them as the producers of the Yiddish Glory albums.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anna Shternshis is a J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She used to hold the title of A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Псой Галактионович Короленко; born April 26, 1967) is a pseudonym of a Russian songwriter and performer by the name of Pavel Eduardovich Lion (Russian: Павел Эд…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoy_Korolenko
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust. It was nominated for the 61st Annual Gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_Glory
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“Their performances... will be only the third Yiddish-language concerts in mainland China over the past 60 years”
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The specific claim that these are the 'third Yiddish-language concerts in mainland China over the past 60 years' is not corroborated by the provided Wikipedia or general web search results, though the event itself is mentioned in one news source.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli population is linguistically and culturally diverse. Hebrew is the country's official language, and almost the entire population speaks it either as a first language or proficiently as a s…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The revival of the Hebrew language took place in Europe and the Southern Levant toward the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, through which the language's usage changed from the purely…
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“Shternshis and Korolenko have produced two albums of Yiddish music – 2016’s Grammy-nominated Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II and The Silenced Songs of WWII from this year”
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Multiple sources confirm the production of 'Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II' (2016) and the newer album 'Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II' by Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anna Shternshis is a J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She used to hold the title of A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Shternshis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Псой Галактионович Короленко; born April 26, 1967) is a pseudonym of a Russian songwriter and performer by the name of Pavel Eduardovich Lion (Russian: Павел Эд…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoy_Korolenko
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust. It was nominated for the 61st Annual Gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_Glory
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“2016’s Grammy-nominated Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that the album 'Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II' was nominated for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second studio album by the English rock band Oasis. Released on 2 October 1995 by Creation Records, it was produced by Owen Morris and the group's lead guitari…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Song of Glory (Chinese: 锦绣南歌; pinyin: Jǐnxiù Nángē) is a 2020 Chinese television series. It is directed by Huang Bin and Li Huizhu, and stars Li Qin, Qin Hao and Gu Jiacheng. It originally aired f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Glory
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust. It was nominated for the 61st Annual Gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_Glory
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“that were first collected by Soviet ethnologist Moisei Beregovsky in the 1930s and 40s.”
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Multiple independent sources (CBC Radio and ABC News) confirm that Moisei Beregovsky collected these Yiddish folk songs in Ukraine and the Soviet Union during the war (1930s/40s).
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web search NEUTRAL — Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust. It was nominated for the 61st Annual Gra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_Glory
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web search NEUTRAL — Beregovsky had made it his life's mission to collect Yiddish folk songs in Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union during the war. But after the war ended, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's governmen…
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-fu…
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web search NEUTRAL — These songs were originally collected by Moisei Beregovsky, the preeminent scholar of Jewish music in the Soviet Union who was arrested by Stalin.
https://abcnews.com/International/long-lost-yiddish-songs-ha…
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