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Shmerke Kaczerginski
… prison term. At the age of 15 he began publishing original songs and poetry, including Tates, mames, kinderlekh … the start of the Second World War to collecting pre-war Yiddish songs and songs of the Holocaust in order to save Yiddishkeit from destruction. The author, editor or …
Avraham Slep
… also took part in the publication of collections of Jewish songs. So, he edited two collections of songs by Chaim Ritterband published in Vilna: Yiddish Melodien (Jewish Melodies) (1935) and 20 leader mit … and his son went missing. Source: 'Avram Sliep ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian). … Conductor & music …
Leon Lishner
… Leon Lishner sings 'Tachanka': Leon Lishner sing Five Yiddish Songs: … American operatic bass-baritone … 0 … Opera … American … Russian jewry … Yiddish songs … Leon Lishner …
Henech Kon
… inter-war Polish-Jewish cultural scene. He wrote popular songs, and participated in a wide variety of cultural … scores, recordings, and more. ' Play Me a Song ' In Yiddish by Henekh Kon, words by Y. Kotliar: *(The … Poland … Polish composers … Polish Jewry … Theater music … Yiddish songs … Henech Kon …
Platon Brounoff
… Conductor, arranger, and composer of Yiddish music. Born in Yelisavetgrad in Russia. In 1891, … secular choir in America. Collected over 300 Jewish folk songs, some of which he arranged for his choir. Composed Yiddish songs (see 'Song of the month,' March 2010 ). …
Abraham Ellstein
… was active on the radio and broadcasted programs about Yiddish music and Synagogue music. As a composer, he wrote 33 scores for Yiddish musical theater, over 500 Yiddish songs, and some scores for Yiddish films. In 1957, he …
Max Leibowitz
… (in Philadelphia). He is listed as composer of some Yiddish songs recorded in the early twentieth century. Full …
Anshel Schorr
… prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of Yiddish Theater in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as a … decades of activity, Schorr collaborated with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as … Music website and peruse their exhibit entitled, “ Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage ,” more specifically, the page on …
Aaron Lebedeff
… stage. He was nicknamed “Litvak Komiker,” (the Lithuanian Yiddish comic) both for his stage manner, and for the humorous songs he composed and sang. In 1912 he began to perform at … (1927), and many more. Lebedeff continued to be active in Yiddish theater well into the 1940’s. When he died on …
Regina Prager
… Yiddish actress and singer Regina Prager was born in Lemberg … Prager began her stage career at Yankev Ber Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater, where she quickly became one of the … khoydesh from Abraham Goldfaden 's Shulamis ; and several songs on the album, World Famous Artists Sing Oldies Of The …