As the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Hilda Bronsteinf ell in love with the Yiddish language at an early age. She discovered several of the songs on this album as achild, when she heard them performed at London's last Yiddish Theatre, the Grand Palais. In 2003, she discovered that there had been a huge revival of interest in Yiddish music and language and decided to return to her long-forgotten first love. The songs on this release form a vibrant and colorful patchwork, each piece capturing some facet of the lives and culture of East European Jewry - they are the expression of the very soul of a people from it's darkest hours to mometns of ecstatic joy. They originate from a number of sources. For example, three fo teh greatest Yiddish poets are represented here as well as folk songs with unknown composers.