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Moishe Oysher
… immigrated to Canada in 1921, where he joined a traveling Yiddish theater company. In 1932, he founded a Yiddish theater troupe in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After … liturgical music, collaborating on several occasions with Yiddish music greats, The Barry Sisters, and Abe Ellstein . …
Leibele Waldman
… radio. Made many recordings of both liturgical pieces and Yiddish religious folksongs. … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Boris Thomashefsky
… Boris Thomashefsky, son of Yiddish actor and playwright Pincas Thomashefsky, was born … backing, Thomashefsky orchestrated an American tour for a Yiddish theater company based in London. The troupe, with … initiative, is commonly considered to be the beginning of Yiddish Theater in America. Although Thomashefsky was …
Max Helfman
… a Sabbath Cantata , and his Di naye hagode (1948), a Yiddish-language Cantata about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. … " in Wikipedia. … Composer, choral conductor & educator … Yiddish songs … Communism … Socialism … Jewish socialists … …
Rafael Schächter
… formed a chorus specializing in Jewish liturgical music, Yiddish folk songs, and new Palestinian music. In addition …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… 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 … works, and the importance of his labours to researchers and Yiddish cultural activists, his early death has led to his …
Neil Levin
… and repertoire of synagogue music, cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, the music of modern Israel, and …
Martin (Rosebery d'Arguto) Rosenberg
… (Ten Brothers), setting them to the melody of the old Yiddish folk song, 'Yidl mit dem Fidl.' Rosenberg and his …
Avraham Slep
… 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 …
Richard Newman
… from a heart attack. Source: 'Richard Jacob Neumann ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian). See also the list …