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Karel Reiner
… the Bagpiper , by Josef Kajetán Tyl. Perhaps the most popular production with Reiner’s incidental music was the …
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
… such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, as well as popular European singers of the 50s and 60s such as Enrico …