(15 results found)
Joseph Yasser
… Jewish music researcher & collector. Born in Lodz, Poland. Studied in Moscow, and in 1923 moved to the …
Joseph Achron
… Jewish violinist and composer, was born May 1/13, 1886 in Lodzdzieje, Suvalki, then province of the Russian Empire, …
Isaac Schlossberg
… Bertha ' ('Belle Bertha') (1916) at the Bolshoi Theater in Lodz; ' Tsvey kets in ein zak' ('Two cats in one bag') …
David Beyglman
… with the Azazel and Ararat Yiddish Theaters centered in Lodz. In the winter of 1940, Begylman along with … 230,000 other Jewish residents were deported to the Lodz ghetto in the northern Baluty quarter of the city. The … were adapted to the harsh conditions of life in the Lodz Ghetto. The Yiddish singer-songwriter took the place of …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… a tailor by trade, was a popular street performer in the Lodz ghetto. He composed and performed satirical songs … life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto has been recounted by many survivors. His … compositions are detailed in several entries of the Lodz ghetto Chronicle. For a time, he was accompanied by …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… the United States. Cycowski born into a Hasidic family in Lodz, Cycowski's early musical training came as a choirboy …
Sigmund Feinman
… Othello in Romania, 1909, and died while rehearsing in Lodz. Manuscripts of Feinman's own plays and translations …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… Zalman Zylbercweig was born in a small town outside of Lodz, Poland. His father was Tsvi-Hirsh Zylbercweig, a … Hebrew and Yiddish writer. As a young boy, Zalman moved to Lodz with his family, where he enrolled in a modern … this time that Zylbercweig helped found the organization: Lodz Yiddish Dramatic Actors (LIDA). Zylbercweig began …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… he keep up his religious studies. When the family moved to Lodz, Birnbaum became acquainted with Haim Haikel Janowsky, … music theory, but continued to sing in a Jewish choir. In Lodz, Birnbaum studied to become a shohet (slaughterer), a … (1908). In 1913, Birnbaum left Czestochowa and returned to Lodz. In Lodz, he opened a retail business for pianos and …
Alexander Tansman
… Born in Lodz, Poland, studied music in his hometown and in Warsaw. …