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Lucy Levin
… She became a famous actress and played at several theaters from 1925 to 1933. Full biography from the 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. … Yiddish theater …
Reuben Rinder
… he worked until his death in 1966, commissioning works from world-renown composers, including Ernest Bloch , Darius … 20th-century Jewish musical culture. Through insights from the Rinder papers and Rose Rinder’s oral history (UC …
Ilia Trilling
… See biography in MIlken Archive. (The photo was taken from Trilling's Wikipedia page) … Yiddish theater composer … …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… and one-act plays for his theater troupe based in Lodz. From 1915 to 1924, Zylbercweig acted as the editor of the …
Zalmen Mlotek
Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer…
Harry Kandel
… a variety of instruments, including himself on clarinet, trombone, tuba, xylophone, cornet, violin, flute, viola and piano. Their hits peaked from about 1916 to 1927, and included 'Der shtiler Bulgar', a …
Avram Moyshe Kholodenko
… also known as 'Pedoster,' was a Klezmer bandleader from Berdichev (Ukranian city southwest of Kiev). In the …
Joseph Moskowitz
… Joseph Moskowitz born in Romania. He was an American cimbalom player, and a recording … repertoire which included not only Jewish music but also Romanian, classical, and ragtime music. Full biography in …
Haim Effendi
… life in his city of birth although he toured extensively. From 1925 to 1935-36 he lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He passed … among Sephardi singers. Haim also absorbed new songs from diverse sources and “Sephardized” them, i.e. rendered … the uncommonly large number of commercial recordings from the early 20th century, speaks of his fame. This …
Eliakum Zunser
… a legendary figure. The name Zunser was probably derived from Zunse (a small village near Vilna, Lithuania), where his … and vicious harassment by the Russians, he wandered from city to city and at one time was imprisoned. After his release from prison he journeyed to Kovno (Kaunas), where he took up …