From left to right actors Helen Deborah Lewis, Dave Adler. Barbara W. Grossman, Laurence Senelick and Jeremy Price sing as the band Jumbo Knish Factory and actors rehearse a show of cabaret done in the Jewish ghettoes in Poland during the '30s and '40s. (John Bohn / Globe Staff) John Bohn / Globe Staff

Honoring the music that defied the Holocaust

By Omar Sacirbey

Globe Correspondent / December 6, 2006

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Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" may seem like an unlikely resistance song, but that's what the 1926 Broadway hit became in an even unlikelier place and time -- the Jewish ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe. (Full article: 804 words)