“A moving tribute to the power of music and the resilience of survivors” - Simon Nakonechny, CBC TV News, January 26, 2022
“Extraordinary” -Toronto Star Sarah Laing, Feb 2023
“Rebekah Wolkstein’s compositions oscillate between high drama and tenderness… of hope and unimaginable violence” -German Public Radio
“An album you must hear”- Review on Deutschlandfunk Kultur German Public Radio-featured on report on “Best New CDs”
“Incredible music making. One of the best albums of Jewish music ever.” - Bernard Clarke, Irish Public Radio RTE
“A masterpiece of tango” “Music to pass on the history of unimaginable violence to future generations” -Japan’s Musica Terra
“It takes five to Tango.”-Hamilton Spectator- re: Argentine tango show
“Es ist das erste jiddischsprachige Album, das Platz 1 der europäischen Weltmusikcharts erreicht”-DW Deutche Welle
“Moving, heartbreaking… the most memorable release I have ever had the privilege to listen to and review.”- Tina Kiilk, Wholenote Magazine March 2023
“Beautiful” Special on ORF (Austrian national radio) about Silent Tears
“A World Class Contemporary Chamber Ensemble” - Ottawa Citizen
“Astounding, both musically and conceptually” - Everything Zoomer
“An incredibly moving work of musical art.”-NPR’s Rhythm Atlas
“Moving, harrowing… with a feeling of hope and survival”- Bangkok Post
“Beautiful, sad, powerful and empowering” -CBC Fresh Air Nicole Martin
“Extraordinary new album” -Roots Music Canada
“How the legacy of Holocaust survivors lives on through poetry in Toronto” -CTV News,Hannah Alberga, January 27, 2022
“Poignant”- NPR’s NewSounds NYC Jan 31 2023
“Wonderful album”- WCBN Ann Arbor Dromedary Express
“Un volume historique et sensible d'une partie de notre civilisation.”-Belgian Public Radio RTBF
“Stille Tränen”- German Public Radio- Report on MDR’s Folk and Welt
“Silent Tears” -YLE -Finland’s national broadcaster, part of a special program featuring tango from around the world
30 minute feature about Silent Tears on Radio Popolare (Italian Public Radio)
“A magnificent project”-- Alain Lalancette / 13 minute feature on CKIA, Radio Urbaine. La Voyage Imaginaire, Quebec City
CKIA 88.3 Radio Urbaine.
“Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango, musica basata sulle testimonianze di donne sopravvissute all’Olocausto” Italian Public Radio (Radio Popolare)
30 minute special on Silent Tears album on Italian Public Radio-Radio Populaire
“Fabulous”- Demesenlla Radio- 12 minute feature about Silent Tears across Catalonia
“Sounds of Survivors” – Andy Muchin / Sounds Jewish (PRX, National Public Radio affiliate Mississippi Public Broadcasting) (10-minute feature begins at 8:10 into broadcast) January 19, 2022
“Music highlights plight of women who faced sexual violence during the Holocaust” - Yoel Matveyev – The Forward (in Yiddish) January 27, 2022
“I cried while watching it” – Music Before Shabbat (Spain), reviewing Silent Tears, February, 2022
“Songs of Unspeakable Sorow” -CBC All in a Day with Alan Neal
The Jewish Radio Hour (Winnipeg) previews Silent Tears – Raquel Zucker, CKJS - (Canada’s only Yiddish language radio program)
“Moving” – John Gilks, Opera Ramblings, February 2022
Previewing the premiere of Silent Tears – The Last Yiddish Tango – Ilana Jackson, The Canadian Jewish News – January 26, 2022
“A magnificent project” - Alain Lalancette /CKIA FM Jan 2023
“Amazing Musicians…a unique project.” -CBC Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan Jan 2023
15 minute feature on Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango on CKCU-FM Ottawa’s “Saturday Morning” with Mike Regenstreif – January 29, 2022
Preview of Silent Tears on “Musical Migrations” WSFM, Asheville, NC – Gypsy Flores – January 26, 2022
Payadora’s Silent Tears Album Top 20 on Transglobal World Music Chart February and March 2023
“Silent Tears” is among 2022’s highlights to mark 2022’s Holocaust Remembrance Day – Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet Magazine January 2022
Silent Tears featured on special Yom HaShoah episode of Sounds Jewish Radio with host Andy Muchin - April 23, 2022
“The Silent Tears project uses poetry to express unbearable Holocaust memories -words now set to music” - CBC’s Metro Morning (Toronto) – Jan 28, 2022
“How art can immortalize” – Sabrina Marandola, CBC’s Let’s Go (Montreal) – Jan 27, 2022
"Silent Tears is the first Yiddish-language album that has topped the European World Music charts.”-DW Deutsche Well