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Karel Reiner
… works for orchestra, chorus, and piano, chamber music, and songs. He also composed incidental music for the avant-garde … postwar years, Reiner focused his attention on composing songs with socialist themes such as: The Rocket with a Red …
Hirsch Glik
… the Vilna ghetto. Many partisan writers, such as Glik, saw song writting as an effective way of promoting their cause, … creating a feeling of communal strength. Among many other songs glorifying the bravery of the partisans, Glik composed the popular song ‘Zog nit keynol as du geyst dem letstn veg’ (Never say …
Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… A talented singer, songwriter and performer who composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment … biographies: ' Aleksander Kulisiewicz' on Wikimedia. 'Songs of the ghettos, concentration camps, and World War II …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… prison term. At the age of 15 he began publishing original songs and poetry, including Tates, mames, kinderlekh … start of the Second World War to collecting pre-war Yiddish songs and songs of the Holocaust in order to save Yiddishkeit from …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… in the Lodz ghetto. He composed and performed satirical songs pertaining to major events and to figures of the … wage indeed.” One of Hershkowitz's greatest hits was the song, “Rumkowski Chaim,” a mocking critique of the ghetto’s … Elder (Judenälteste). Hershkowitz composed another popular song about Chaim Rumkowiski entitled, “Long live Chairman …
Leyb Rozental
… writers of revue theater in the Vilna ghetto. Many of his songs were written for and sung by his sister, Chayele. Rozental's songs were also sung and performed outside of the theater, particularly his revue song, 'Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray' (One, two three). Rozental's …
Neil Levin
… of synagogue music, cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, the music of modern Israel, and music of American …
Nurit Hirsh
… Hundreds of Nurit Hirsh's songs are inalienable assets of the Hebrew Folk Song ('Zemer Ivri'). She composed more than one thousand songs. Among these: 'Oseh Shalom,' 'Bashana Haba'a,' and …
Martin (Rosebery d'Arguto) Rosenberg
… setting them to the melody of the old Yiddish folk song, 'Yidl mit dem Fidl.' Rosenberg and his chorus died in the gas chambers in 1943. This song was passed down by a non-Jewish prisoner at … forget Tsen Brider , and if he should survive, to sing the song and through it tell the world of the suffering in the …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… direction of Dr. Michael Naida. His popular compositions, songs, film and video scores, signature tunes, and … telecast Golden Gates of Joy Oratorio , and the Cantata Song of Esther with lyrics and libretto by Abraham Soltes, … because of 'an extraordinary listeners' response.' His song 'Ufi Ruach' with words by Aaron Ashman became the first …