Professor of Jewish Studies at @UofT, specialist in Russian/Soviet/post-Soviet Jewish history, culture, oral history, and diaspora. Views are my own.
Joined November 2009
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21 Jan 2023
It is live! @AliceZawadzki, @imichaelrossi and I went to Central Asia to retrace where @YiddishGlory songs originated and @BBCRadio3 and @BBCWorld and @bbcworldservice did a story about it, and now the world can hear. I need a moment.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4nd…
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Apr 13
THank you, @NoahHirshRechter for this wonderful story about @YiddishGlory : The Silenced Songs of World War II album (2026) forward.com/culture/818248/y…
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Jan 24
Super excited that @BBCWorld ran a story about my new forthcoming @YiddishGlory album, featuring a song written by an eyewitness of a massacre of Jews in Zhabokrych in 1941.
bbc.com/audio/play/w172zw8k5… (starts at 18:08) thank you @SSHRC_CRSH for supporting this research!
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17 Sep 2025
Thank you @TheCJN for this beautiful story by Jonathan Rothman about our visit to Brazil and Argentina...
thecjn.ca/arts-culture/canad… @danrosenbergnet @YiddishGlory
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3 May 2025
Come and spend a semester at UofT!
1 May 2025
ATCJS at UofT is currently searching for an artist-in-residence for the academic year 2025-2026. Scan the QR code for detailed application information , or please visit our website: jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/ab…
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27 Jan 2025
Talked to @CP24 about the survey reporting a large number of Canadian young people saying "Holocaust is exaggerated"... Takeaway: we need more education in History.
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25 Mar 2024
steps from my kid's school. Are these children committing Genocide and hiding behind antisemitism and Holocaust? Really?
25 Mar 2024
Seen outside my children’s school today in #Toronto. @MayorOliviaChow, @fordnation, and @JustinTrudeau what actions are you going to take against the tide of Jew hatred in our country? The time for action was yesterday! @TPSOperations
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12 Mar 2024
Very excited about this next week. When do I get to see my colleagues all wearing their hats and gowns discussing such important issues? @CJSUofT @UofTGerman @UofTReligion @uoftphilosophy @uoftmedicine
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27 Feb 2024
Now that we made it to @TheCJN, there is no turning back for @ronleviutoronto and myself! antisemitism, here we come! thecjn.ca/news/uoft-antisemi…
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26 Jan 2024
Well, it was really something, full house at @CanadasNAC presenting @YiddishGlory with @AliceZawadzki, Psoy Korolenko and @jeremyledbetter still thinking about emotional roller coaster of the performance… as usual, no proper photo…
25 Jan 2024
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Week, Grammy-nominated ensemble @YiddishGlory plays at the @CanadasNAC today. The group performs resurrected songs created by Holocaust victims and survivors in Ukraine and Moldova that were thought lost to history.
apt613.ca/holocaust-remembra…
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6 Dec 2023
Music, Diaspora and Violence is one of my favourite classes to teach at @UofT. Very excited that @UofTArtSci newsletter published this great piece about it by Cynthia Macdonald, and thank you for @UofT_CDTS students for saying such nice things too!!
@CJSUofT, @UofTGerman
5 Dec 2023
In wartime, music can be two different things: a weapon, or an important source of comfort and healing. Wars, Diaspora & Music is a course that explores how music plays a key role during war and other forms of violent conflict and displacement.
Read more: bit.ly/3GviJ19
ALT An illustration of musical notes.
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21 Nov 2023
My @TEDx talk is live!! Look at @AliceZawadzki , @bruno_heinen and me delivering our @TEDxKazimierz presentation called Yiddish Music of Holocaust Refugees... including a couple of world premiers!
youtube.com/watch?v=fVqqFNbf…
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14 Nov 2023
Shared some thoughts on on antisemitism on campus... cp24.com/news/unprecedented-…
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9 Nov 2023
This poem by Alice Gorzhaltsan really strikes the nerve...
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18 Oct 2023
thank you for making this statement!
17 Oct 2023
Our government has been abundantly clear on our position regarding celebratory statements on the killings of Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorist groups, they have no place in Ontario and certainly not in our postsecondary institutions.
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29 Sep 2023
Almost ready for the talk @TEDxKazimierz with @AliceZawadzki on @YiddishGlory! My amazing @UofT_CDTS, @CJSUofT and @UofTGerman students and colleagues helped with the title: Who Will Sing How We Lived and Died? Yiddish music of Holocaust Refugees ted.com/tedx/events/52106
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Anna Shternshis retweeted
7 Sep 2023
Our heartfelt thanks to the musicianship of @AliceZawadzki & @MishaMAmusic @bruno_heinen for Yiddish Glory & musicianship of @zislepovitch @SashaLurje, Craig, Joshua & Dmitry for Songs from Testimonies last night. Thanks to @hgrp_org @ShirliGilbert, @shternsh &tagged partners
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