
The project refers to the time before World War II, when Warsaw was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe and the second largest in the world, after New York.
Today, only a memory remains of this once vibrant community —a memory that Yael seeks to revive through sound, inviting the audience on a journey to Israel:
from the Middle Ages to the present day, from Yiddish to modern Hebrew.
The concert repertoire includes a cappella pieces performed by a vocal trio, related to major Jewish holidays, performed in Hebrew, as well as compositions in Ladino — the language of the Jews of Southern Europe — written in the Sephardic tradition, evoking the hot sands of North Africa and the deep blue of the Mediterranean Sea.
A special place in Yael’s repertoire is dedicated to a collection of songs in Yiddish, composed in the ghettos of Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, and Vilnius. These pieces primarily depict the everyday lives of Jewish communities: joy and sorrow, love and struggle, hope and death. All the things that ordinary people lived through and endured.