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Sigmund Feinman
… Born near Kishinev, Feinman acted in Bessarabia and Romania, went to New York in 1886, and worked with Adler, … in London and on the Continent. He played Othello in Romania, 1909, and died while rehearsing in Lodz. …
Leon Blank
… in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family moved to Romania, where he began singing in a local Synagogue choir. Even from an early age, Blank felt an attraction to Yiddish … eight albums released by Victor and Columbia Records from 1917-1928. The best known of these recordings was his …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… as a composer and conductor for the Yiddish theater. From 1925 and until his death, Olshanetsky was one of the most prominent composers and conductors of the 'Second Avenue' …
Abe Schwartz
… Full biography in Milken Archive . (The photo was taken from Abe Schwartz's Wikipedia page) … Jewish bandmaster … 0 … …
Max Leibowitz
… Max Leibowitz was born in Iași, Romania and in September 1905 he emigrated to the United … American klezmer violinist and was a contemporary of other Romanian-born klezmer bandleaders and recording artists in …
Anshel Schorr
… Anshel Schorr, son of prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of … supposedly boasted that the operetta was, “the first romantic Yiddish opera.' Schorr wrote the lyrics for the … meydele , recordings included. (The photo was taken from Schorr's Wikipedia page: A Portrait of Anshel Schorr, …
Moshe Nathanson
… vols.), which is still widely used in the USA today. Aside from his work at the SAJ, Nathanson was involved in a number of projects to promote Jewish and Palestinian folk music. For example, … the “Voice of Jerusalem,” a weekly WMCA radio program to promote Hebrew culture and song. The first broadcast was …
Aaron Lebedeff
… the same time, he married Vera Lubow and joined the Avrom Fishzohn troupe. During the Russian Revolution, he gave … for composing and performing songs that featured and romanticized the provincial villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness for Old World themes is immediately …
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
… That same year, he appeared in the film I am a Fugative from a Chain Gang , which marked the beginning of his …
Jerome Kern
… Jerome Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City to parents Fanny and Henry Kern. Jerome was the oldest of nine children, of which only three … had his first big Broadway success with the show The Girl from Utah . One of the songs Kern contributed to the show, …