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Viktor Ullmann
… in securing a post during his first year of residence there. During the years 1929-1931, Ullmann worked at the … sixteen known compositions and an additional four that are believed to be either lost or incomplete. His Terezín … Piano (1943-44); Der Kaiser von Atlantis (1943); Three Songs for Baritone and Piano; Herbst for Voice, Violin, …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… acquired my fondness for the Hassidic niggun. In my memory are always present some of the visits that I made … and the friendly relations between us and the Rebbe’s songs, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel (may God … Hate h iya , i.e. Hebrew songs of Zionist content). Since there were not enough Jewish children in Dańdówka to form a h …
Dudu Barak
… Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew up in … Some of his songs became idiomatic phrases. Two examples are the songs 'Hofshi Vemeushar' and 'Kotel Hamizrah.' Barak … and I'm connected to the one and only Jerusalem. That's where I could express my soul and the excess spirit, if it …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke Kaczerginski lost both his parents during World War I. As a youth, he was involved with … prison term. At the age of 15 he began publishing original songs and poetry, including Tates, mames, kinderlekh … Kaczerginski's eventual imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with Sutzkever as …
Avraham Slep
… conductor, and arranger, was born in 1884. It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There … also took part in the publication of collections of Jewish songs. So, he edited two collections of songs by Chaim …
Joseph Papernikoff
… he returned to Warsaw. At the age of 16, he began to write songs in Yiddish. His debut song, 'Dos Feld' ('The Field'), … and Tel Aviv. In 1929 he returned to Poland and lived there until 1933 when he finally returned to Israel. During the Holocaust, his parents, four of his five brothers, as well as his uncles, …
Israel Alter
… Synagogue in Vienna. In 1925, he moved to Hanover , where he remained for about ten years and served as the last … Yiddish poems. His collections of transcriptions of nusach are considered standard works in the field. Alter is known … . Videoclip of Alter's Chazi Kadish . See here a list of songs written or composed by Alter. (the digital library of …
Andre Hajdu
… family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject he rarely commented on), André Hajdu enrolled after the war at … the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky and Ferenc Szabó … on traditional pieces of Ashkenazi hazzanut and Yiddish songs, performed by cantor Asher Hainovitz with Hajdu on the …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… and folklore courses at UCLA, taught by Weinreich. It was there in Los Angeles that she became romantically involved … survivor she had met the previous summer playing Yiddish songs on a mandolin at Rockaway Beach in New York but who … published three anthologies, Mir Trogn a Gezang (We Are Carrying a Song), Pearls of Yiddish Song , and Songs …
We are here: songs of the Holocaust
… Workmen’s Circle … … 1983 … Poetry … Holocaust … Holocaust songs … Yiddish … Translations … Transliterations … Eastern … Gottlieb … Elie Wiesel … Tsirl (Cecelia G.) Waletzky … We are here: songs of the Holocaust …