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Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… A talented singer, songwriter and performer who composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment … biographies: ' Aleksander Kulisiewicz' on Wikimedia. 'Songs of the ghettos, concentration camps, and World War II partisan …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… prison term. At the age of 15 he began publishing original songs and poetry, including Tates, mames, kinderlekh … 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 …
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 …
Leyb Rozental
… of the most prolific writers of revue theater in the Vilna ghetto. Many of his songs were written for and sung by his sister, Chayele. … child entrepreneur, became widely popular in the ghetto. Like many of Rozental’s songs, it was first …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… 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, … direction of Dr. Michael Naida. His popular compositions, songs, film and video scores, signature tunes, and …
Avraham Slep
… also took part in the publication of collections of Jewish songs. So, he edited two collections of songs by Chaim … 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 …
Salah El Kuweiti
… Iraq, their names were intentionally forgotten, and their songs were titled 'folksongs' or ascribed to other musicians. In Israel, they … brothers both felt that they were cornered into a cultural ghetto, due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in …
Gila Flam
… of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940–45 was published by the University of Illinois … in the preparation of the scholarly edition of the Yiddish songs collection of M. Beregovski. Picture courtesy of …
Salamone Rossi
… with Jewish theater troupes active in the Jewish ghetto, as well as in Christian communities and in the … polyphonic settings of Hebrew psalms, hymns and synagogue songs titled Ha-Shirim Asher li-Shelomo (1622-3), edited by …
Mordecai Gebirtig
… bard, both composing the lyrics and melodies for his songs. His work became popular throughout the Diaspora long … wife and two daughters. In 1967, a selection of his last songs written in the Cracow Ghetto were published in Hebrew translation in the …