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Joseph Shlisky
… promised Shlisky’s parents to train their boy in liturgical song and take him on tour to London, England. Instead, the … established Jewish families. He delighted audiences with songs that would remain at the core of his non-liturgical … Handel’s Sound an Alarm and a series of Yiddish or Hebrew songs. While these may have been folk songs, Shlisky was …
David Beyglman
… conditions of life in the Lodz Ghetto. The Yiddish singer-songwriter took the place of the badhan (wedding …
Heinrich Schalit
… wrote orchestral, chamber, and piano music, as well as songs. He used Hebrew poetry for some of his compositions, …
Leibele Waldman
… of both liturgical pieces and Yiddish religious folksongs. … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
Solomon Smulewitz
… Full biography in Milken Archive. … Songwriter, lyricist, actor & recording singer … 0 … Songwriter … Lyricist … Singer … Actor … Recordings … …
Gideon Klein
… with Rafael Schachter for whose chorus Klein composed folk songs in Czech, Slovak, Hebrew, and Russian. Since procuring … arrangements for Schächter's chorus survives: the Hebrew song Bachuri leantisa, composed on December 3, 1942. In …
Hans Krása
… WWII was small but well received. In 1926, he composed Five Songs for Voice and Piano and then six years later in 1932, … at the Klein Buhne (Small Stage) in Prague . Krása’s Anna Song from Hoffmeister’s play was particularly well … after the premier. Krása himself used the theme from Anna Song as the base for two later works, the String Quartet, …
Max Helfman
… … Composer, choral conductor & educator … Yiddish songs … Communism … Socialism … Jewish socialists … …
Emanuel Zamir
… Emanuel Zamir was a unique figure in the field of Hebrew Folksong (Zemer Ivri). He was born in Petakh Tikva, to parents … of the colony. At an early age, he was influenced by the songs of composer Matitiyahu Shelem of Kibbutz … breeding, a theme which later appeared in several of his songs. Zamir's songs, in general, for which he wrote both …
Rafael Schächter
… the first all-male cast cabaret variety show. The final song, “Terezín March,” became an instant hit, and was a … he arranged Czech, Slovak, Hebrew and even Russian folk songs for Schächter's expanding choral group (an invaluable … specializing in Jewish liturgical music, Yiddish folk songs, and new Palestinian music. In addition to organizing …