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Mordecai Gebirtig
… bard, both composing the lyrics and melodies for his songs. His work became popular throughout the Diaspora long … Gebirtig was murdered by the Nazis in June of 1942 along with his wife and two daughters. In 1967, a selection of his last songs written in the Cracow Ghetto were published in Hebrew …
Nikolai Kaufman
… artistic output was in the field of Bulgaria folk music, with strong emphasis on studies about plurivocality and … and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. Only … words, was a huge one indeed. And she probably learned the songs he used to sing most often.” Kaufman’s mother, Ida …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… there in Los Angeles that she became romantically involved with another student, Joseph (Yosl) Mlotek , a Holocaust … survivor she had met the previous summer playing Yiddish songs on a mandolin at Rockaway Beach in New York but who … Yiddish Poetry') that included the feature ' Readers Recall Songs ,' and which invited readers to submit Yiddish songs …
Joseph Mlotek
… was born in the town of Proszowice, Poland, and moved with his family to Warsaw at the age of 7. As a young man, … school system, he published several collections of Yiddish songs with his wife, Chana Mlotek . The most recent collection was titled ' Songs of Generations .' He was also an editor of the Yiddish …