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Hirsch Glik
… glorifying the bravery of the partisans, Glik composed the popular song ‘Zog nit keynol as du geyst dem letstn veg’ … news of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The song was based on a popular Soviet melody by composer Dimitri Pokrass. This song’s popularity extended far beyond the confines of the Vilna …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… – the majority of those still known. Despite the enduring popularity of many of his own works, and the importance of … composed songs during the war, many of which became popular, including Friling ('Springtime'), about his …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… Yankele Hershkowitz, a tailor by trade, was a popular street performer in the Lodz ghetto. He composed and … ghetto’s Elder (Judenälteste). Hershkowitz composed another popular song about Chaim Rumkowiski entitled, “Long live …
Leyb Rozental
… a tough but sentimental child entrepreneur, became widely popular in the ghetto. Like many of Rozental’s songs, it was …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… Society Inc. under the direction of Dr. Michael Naida. His popular compositions, songs, film and video scores, … 'Tzena Tzena' in the British Army and it was initially popularized by The Weavers with Pete Seeger on banjo, …
Moshe Wilensky
… the "Achva" record company, selected Wilensky to arrange 30 popular songs of the time, sung by Yosef Goland. These … of the record company Hed Artzi , which published the most popular Israeli records. Around this time, he began working … From 1961 to 1978, he worked for Kol Israel as head of popular music and conductor of the Israel Broadcasting …
Henech Kon
… thriving inter-war Polish-Jewish cultural scene. He wrote popular songs, and participated in a wide variety of …
Ehud Manor
… caught up in foreign radio stations that played American popular music, like songs from the 1920s and 1930s by people …
Uzi Hitman
… home, Hitman’s parents listened to Italian opera music, pop music bands and rock music bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, as well as popular European singers of the 50s and 60s such as Enrico …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… Cycowski was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the United States. … to Germany in 1921 to become an opera singer and joined the popular vocal sextet, the Comedian Harmonists in 1927. He …