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Gershon Sirota
… grandfather was a member. The board of trustees, and other music professionals in attendance, were taken aback by the … styles. Yakovkin encouraged Sirota to consider studying music formally at the Odessa Conservatory of Music. Based on … residence in Warsaw during WWII, and perished in the ghetto uprising of 1943. … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … 230,000 other Jewish residents were deported to the Lodz ghetto in the northern Baluty quarter of the city. The ghetto was officially sealed on April 30, 1940, and remained …
Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … remained one of the core figures in the musical life of the ghetto. Although basic resources such as instruments and … Slovak, Hebrew, and Russian. Since procuring scores in the ghetto was very difficult, Klein’s original compositions …
Max Helfman
… a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music that was both singable and emotionally complex, which … hagode (1948), a Yiddish-language Cantata about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He directed many choirs and educational …
Marysia (Miriam) Eisenstadt
… Young singer who performed classical and Jewish music concerts in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. … Singer, “the [Warsaw] ghetto Nightingale” … Marysia (Miriam) Eisenstadt …
Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… and preserved the largest collection in existence of music composed in the Nazi camps. Because this extraordinary … touches on a variety of issues relevant not only to music scholarship but also contemporary European history, it … ' Aleksander Kulisiewicz' on Wikimedia. 'Songs of the ghettos, concentration camps, and World War II partisan …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… to Kaczerginski's eventual imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with … Partisans Organisation, participating in the failed Vilna Ghetto uprising and then escaping to the forest to fight … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… tailor by trade, was a popular street performer in the Lodz ghetto. He composed and performed satirical songs pertaining to major events and to figures of the ghetto. While not much is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … inhuman suffering in the winter of 1941 in the Kutno ghetto with other members, and relatives of his family and alongside some 7,000 other Kutno Jews. This short-lived ghetto became instantly a freezing inferno of disease, …
Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing … During the years of Nazi occupation, Slep was in the Vilna ghetto. He and Tamara Girshovich, a piano teacher, managed … possible, Slep and his choir performed in concerts in the ghetto. A few months before the destruction of the Vilna …