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Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
Yankele Hershkowitz, a tailor by trade, was a popular street performer in the Lodz…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
Aleksander Kulisiewicz
A talented singer, songwriter and performer who composed 54 songs during more than…
Hirsch Glik
Hirsch Glik was born in 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing…
Marysia (Miriam) Eisenstadt
Young singer who performed classical and Jewish music concerts in the Warsaw…
Max Helfman
Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist,…
Gideon Klein
Gideon Klein, pianist and composer, born December 6, 1919, in Přerov (Moravia). At the…
David Beyglman
David Beyglman, conductor, was born in 1887 in Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland).…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45
Explores the repertoire of songs created or performed by prisoners in the Lodz ghetto.…