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Max Leibowitz
… Max Leibowitz was born in Iași, Romania and in September 1905 he emigrated to the United … American klezmer violinist and was a contemporary of other Romanian-born klezmer bandleaders and recording artists in …
Anshel Schorr
… Anshel Schorr, son of prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of … supposedly boasted that the operetta was, “the first romantic Yiddish opera.' Schorr wrote the lyrics for the … meydele , recordings included. (The photo was taken from Schorr's Wikipedia page: A Portrait of Anshel Schorr, …
Moshe Nathanson
… vols.), which is still widely used in the USA today. Aside from his work at the SAJ, Nathanson was involved in a number of projects to promote Jewish and Palestinian folk music. For example, … the “Voice of Jerusalem,” a weekly WMCA radio program to promote Hebrew culture and song. The first broadcast was …
Aaron Lebedeff
… the same time, he married Vera Lubow and joined the Avrom Fishzohn troupe. During the Russian Revolution, he gave … for composing and performing songs that featured and romanticized the provincial villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness for Old World themes is immediately …
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
… That same year, he appeared in the film I am a Fugative from a Chain Gang , which marked the beginning of his …
Jerome Kern
… Jerome Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City to parents Fanny and Henry Kern. Jerome was the oldest of nine children, of which only three … had his first big Broadway success with the show The Girl from Utah . One of the songs Kern contributed to the show, …
Regina Prager
… Shenkt A Neduve ; Shabes, yontef, un rosh khoydesh from Abraham Goldfaden 's Shulamis ; and several songs on … The Yiddish Theatre . Prager collaborated with a number of prominent Yiddish theater composers. Her performance of … lightness and suppleness of a real lyrical soprano.' Photo from Jewniverse website. … Yiddish theater actress & …
Joel Walbe
… together with the harsh events in Ukraine (WWI, Pogroms, Russian revolution) compelled Walbe to immigrate to …
Paul Ben-Haim
… of “Mediterranean style” while straying not too far from the mainstream orchestral repertoire. It was thus very …
Frida Zibel-Goldstein
… she acted since then in various troupes. Full biography from the 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. … Yiddish …