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Karel Reiner
… (Western Bohemia). Reiner studied law and musicology at the Charles University in Prague, and composition at the Master School under Josef Suk and Alois Hába. Aside from … regularly and was a sought after accompanist until the Nazi occupying forces in the Czech territories issued a …
Karel Ančerl
… Karel Ančerl, conductor, born April 11, 1908 in Tučapy (Southern Bohemia). Karel Ančerl studied conducting and composition at the Prague Conservatory of Music. After graduating in 1929, … Ančerl worked for Hermann Scherchen as a vocal coach at the Munich Opera House. He went on to conduct the orchestra …
Marysia (Miriam) Eisenstadt
… who performed classical and Jewish music concerts in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. … Singer, “the [Warsaw] ghetto Nightingale” … Marysia (Miriam) …
Hirsch Glik
… working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing poetry at the age of 13, and was involved throughout his adolescent … (Young Forest). In September of 1941, Glik was sent to the first of two ghettos established in the city. One of the most significant political forces in …
Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… is also noteworthy for having created and preserved the largest collection in existence of music composed in the Nazi camps. Because this extraordinary collection … historians alike. Full biography can be seen at Music and the Holocaust website. Additional biographies: ' Aleksander …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term. At the age of 15 he began publishing original songs and poetry, including Tates, mames, kinderlekh ('Fathers, mothers, children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… a 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 personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto has been recounted by …
Leyb Rozental
… Leyb Rozental was one of the most prolific writers of revue theater in the Vilna ghetto. Many of his songs were written for and …
Neil Levin
… Artistic Director of the Milken Archive since 1993, Neil W. Levin has devoted his professional and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, …
Nurit Hirsh
… Hundreds of Nurit Hirsh's songs are inalienable assets of the Hebrew Folk Song ('Zemer Ivri'). She composed more than one thousand songs. Among these: 'Oseh Shalom,' 'Bashana Haba'a,' and 'Lalehet Shevi … Rahel, Tirza Atar and Dalia Rabikovitch, among many others. Hirsh collaborated with some of the best lyricists: …