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Kurdish communities draw on an immensely rich oral heritage. This edition presents the musical repertoire of Dengbêj Gazîn (1959-2018), a singer-poet from Tetwan (Tatvan) and one of the most famous female Kurdish dengbêjs of her time. Dengbêjs are amongst the most prestigious of Kurdish oral performers:…

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the transcripts of hundreds of interviews with Soviet survivors of Nazi occupation were found in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian archives. These transcripts had been created by a Moscow commission headed by the historian Isaak Izrailevich Mints. Early on, Mints…