Yiddish Song is a special collection of Inna Rogatchi works, known also as Shtetl Memories. In September 2024, the collection , along with Michael Rogatchi Shtetl Songs collection was donated to the Grigory Kanovich Public Jonava Library in Lithuanian in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the outstanding writer Grigory Kanovich, who was a close friend of Michael and Inna Rogatchi for many decades. Yiddish Songs comprises the works from several Inna Rogatchi’s art series, including Yiddish Songs, Hidden Windows and Songs of Our Lives.
” In the words of great Elie Wiesel, who was my dear teacher, mentor and friend, and whom Inna and Michael also knew well and closely for many years, ““There is no greater peace than a broken heart » . There is no artworks greater than those which make us hear the Song of our Souls and this Cry of Heaven by Inna Rogatchi” – Dr Michael de Saint-Cheron, Hearing the Songs of Our Souls essay. Shtetl Stories and Memories art catalogue. Lithuania, 2024.
Inna Rogatchi’s Introductory Shtetl Memories: The Imprint of Identity essay for her Shtetl Memories/Yiddish Songs collection can be read here.
Excerpts from Dr Michael de Saint-Cheron’s essay on Inna Rogatchi Shtetl Memories collection can be read here.
Shavuot Window I. Homage to Grigory Kanovich. Yiddish Songs. series. Luminance Caran d’Ache on original authored pigment print on cotton paper. 30 x 42 cm. 2020. Shtetl Walk I. Yiddish Songs. series. Luminance Caran d’Ache on original authored pigment print on cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 2024. Shtetl Memories I. Yiddish Songs. series. Luminance Caran d’Ache on original authored pigment print on cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 2024. Shtetl Walks and Memories diptych. Yiddish Songs. series. Luminance Caran d’Ache on original authored pigment print on cotton paper. Each part: 33 x 48 cm. 2024. Shtetl Mirage. Yiddish Songs. series. Watercolour, oil pastel, wax pastel, Neopastel, Luminance Caran d’Ache on original authored pigment print on cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 2024. Psalm. Songs of Our Souls series. Exclusive pigment original authored print on Arches Velin cotton paper. 48 x 33 cm. 1/1/ 2024. Original: 2018. Private collection, Finland. Song of Our Souls I. Songs of Our Souls series. Exclusive pigment original authored print on Arches Velin cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 1/1/ 2024. Original: 2017. Memory Wind II. Hidden Windows series. Exclusive pigment original authored print on Arches Velin cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 1/1/ 2024. Original: 2022. Private collection, the UK – Australia. Cry of Heaven, In Memory of the Six Million. The Holocaust Album series. Exclusive pigment original authored print on Arches Velin cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 1/1/ 2024. Original: 2019.Litvak Story I. Songs of Our Souls series. Exclusive pigment original authored print on Etching cotton paper. 42 x 30 cm. 1/1/ 2024. Original: 2023. Private collection, Vilnius, Lithuania. Memory Cloud II. Songs of Our Souls series. Exclusive pigment original authored print on Arches Velin cotton paper. 33 x 48 cm. 1/1/ 2024. Original: 2018-2021. Private collection, London, the UK. Shavuot Window II. Yiddish Songs. series. Watercolour, oil pastel, wax pastel, lapice pastel, Luminance Caran d’Ache on original authored pigment print on cotton paper. 30 x 42 cm. 2024. The artistic prize for the Grigory Kanovich Literary Republican Award 2024.
