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Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45
… of songs created or performed by prisoners in the Lodz ghetto. Provides a brief history and overview of the … … Holocaust … Yiddish … Persecutions … Ghetto … Poland … Lodz … Eastern Ashkenazi … Gila Flam … Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Gila Flam
… Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940–45 was published by the University of …

Joseph Yasser
… Jewish music researcher & collector. Born in Lodz, Poland. Studied in Moscow, and in 1923 moved to the …
זלמאן זילברוויג
… והעברית. בסביבות אותו זמן עזר זילברוויג להקים את ארגון Lodz Yiddish Dramatic Actors (שחקני הדרמה הידיים בלודז') - … 1915 ועד 1924, זילברוויג שימש כעורך העיתון היומי בלודז', Lodzer Tageblat . בנוסף לחובותיו כעורך, הוא פרסם מאמרים … , וכן ''United Emergency Relief Committee for the City of Lodz'' בשנת 1948 עבר מניו יורק ללוס אנג'לס, שם ביחד עם …
Alexander Tansman
… Born in Lodz, Poland, studied music in his hometown and in Warsaw. …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… the United States. Cycowski born into a Hasidic family in Lodz, Cycowski's early musical training came as a choirboy …