Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
City of the Future - Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union (CD)

EUCD2617

Yale Strom, violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer and playwright, has conducted extensive field research among the Jewish and Rom communities in Europe and Russia. In this album he explores the thriving Yiddish culture in the former Soviet Union in 1931 with Yiddish schools, theatres, choirs, literature and discussion groups. This fascinating and unique album brings light to an immensely well-established cultural entity in Russia before the onset of WWII.

Track listing:

Who Did It (words: Itzik Feffer) - 3:36
Red Army (words: Itzik Feffer) - 3:21
Young Forces Grow (words: Kartshev) - 5:23
On the Slope (words: Leyb Kvitko) - 3:10
Hirsh Lekert (words: folk song) - 3:59
Girls Sewing at the Machines (words: Itzik Feffer) - 3:36
A Stone on a Stone (words: Itzik Feffer) - 3:22
Among the Highest (words: Izi Kharik) - 2:36
City of the Future (words: M. Shapiro) - 4:33
Village Pain (words: B. Kavinev [Yiddish: Yankev Fridman]) - 2:38
My Youth (words: Izi Kharik) - 3:42
The Young Guard (words: Sergei Tretyakov [Yiddish: Yankev Fridman]) - 5:29
This Will Be (words: Arn Kushnirov) - 2:30
The Song of the Collective Farmer (words: Yankev Fridman) - 1:50
Not to Worry (words: Peretz Markish) - 6:52
A Well (words: Itzik Feffer) - 2:39
October (words: Shmuel Rosin) - 6:21
Luminous Detachments (words: Z. Veremikin) - 1:46
Factory Song (words: Z. Smolyanski) - 4:18
Total Playing Time: 72:35 mins.

Published: 2015

Genre: Klezmer & Izrael & Jiddish & Sephardic
Label: Arc Music