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Anshel Schorr
… prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of Yiddish Theater in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as a … decades of activity, Schorr collaborated with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as … Theater on October 6, 1911. The operetta became a staple of Yiddish theater repertoire, and was performed frequently in …
אנשל שור
אנשל שור, בנו של החזן החשוב מלמברג ברוך שור, היה מעמודי התווך של תאטרון הידייש…
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
… both liturgical works and musical settings for Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Published a collection of Eastern European …
Bertha Kalish
… Yiddish theater and Broadway actress Bertha Kalish was born … Kalish was performing regularly at Yakov Ber Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater. Kalish played the starring role in Gimpel’s … New York City in 1896, where she became a mainstay of the Yiddish theater, until 1905 when she transitioned to …
Boruch Schorr
… were published by his son Israel. He was the father of Yiddish composer, lyricist, and actor Anshel Schorr . … …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new “rebirth” songs … Poland and Belarus (formerly Brest-Litovsk,Brisk De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young … call this melody “The Wailing Mother” (“Ha’em hameqonenet”; Yiddish: “Di klog muter”) and “Mr. Kum breathed into it a …
Israel Adler
… Library celebrating his decades-long career. Hearing one Yiddish song after the other, I saw them moved by a music … cries, teary eyes—a subtle connection to a land, the yiddishland , that ended up existing only in their minds. As … Because Bertini was born in Britcheva, Britcheveh in Yiddish, a place that is not easy to remember: It was a …
David Beyglman
… In 1912, he became the director of the Yitskhok Zanberg Yiddish Theater Company. In addition, he was affiliated with the Azazel and Ararat Yiddish Theaters centered in Lodz. In the winter of 1940, … to the harsh conditions of life in the Lodz Ghetto. The Yiddish singer-songwriter took the place of the badhan …
David Meyerowitz
… Full biography in Milken Archive. … 49673 … Yiddish songwriter & Composer … Meyerovitz, Meierowitz … …
Eliakum Zunser
… Minsk, serving as the local correspondent for Kol la-Am , a Yiddish periodical edited at Koenigsberg by M.L. Rodkinson. … them, the latter becoming his most popular song both in the Yiddish and Hebrew versions. Its theme was the joy of … York City, and was named by the New York Times 'father of Yiddish poetry.' Zunser wrote approximately 600 songs, …
אלייקום צונזר
… על ידי הניו יורק טיימס בשם 'אבי השירה ביידיש' ('father of Yiddish poetry'). הוא נפטר בניו יורק בשנת 1913. צונזר כתב …
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
… 1897 and 1904. Additional biography of Gerovich exists in Yiddish, in Elias Zaludowski's 'Ḳulṭur-ṭreger fun der …


