Table of Contents

List of Biographies

Summarized and translated by Ada Holtzman


(Pages 21-221)

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Surname Name Musician Years Town Page
EISENSTADT
Dawid Eisenstadt Musician, Conductor, Pedagogue, Compositor 1890-1942 Nasielsk / Warszawa 21
EISENSTADT
Marysia-Miriam Eisenstadt Singer, “the Ghetto Nightingale” 1921-1942 Warszawa 33
BEIGELMAN
Dawid Beigelman Vilonist, Musician, Conductor 1887-1945 Ostrowice / Lodz 39
BERNSTEIN
Abraham Mosze Bernstein A famous and important Cantor (Khazan) 1866-1932 Szack / Wilna 48
GEBIRTIG
Mordechai Gebirtig Jewish Folklorist “Troubadour” 1877-1942 Krakow 59
GOLD
Henryk Gold A Musician 1902-1977 Warszawa 76
GIMPEL
Bronislaw Gimpel A Musician, Violinist 1911-1979 Lwow 80
GLATSTEIN
Glatstein Jakob A Teacher, Conductor 1895-1942 Lublin / Warszawa 86
GLATSTEIN
Israel Glatstein Songs Writer and a Composer 1894-1942 Gostynin 95
GERSTEIN
Jakub Gerstein A Singer, Composer 1882-1942 Wilna 101
DAWIDOWICZ
Abraham Cwi Dawidowicz A Conductor 1877-1942 ? Near Grodno / Kalisz / Warszawa 108
HUBERMAN
Bronislaw Huberman A Violinist 1882-1947 Czestochowa / Warszawa 117
ZAKS
Icchak Zaks A Musician, Teacher, Conductor 1887-1942? Radomsk / Lodz / Warszawa 130
TAUB
Rabbi Szaul Jedidja Eleazar Chassidic Musician 1886-1947 Ozarow / Demblin-Modrzyc /Otowck 138
SIROTA
Gerszon Sirota A famous Cantor 1877-1943 Warszawa 142
SLIEP
Abraham Sliep A Musician, Teacher, Choirmaster 1884?-1942 Wilna 149
FAJWISZIS
Israel Fajwiszis A Musician, Teacher,
Conductor / Writer of Zionist Pioneer Songs
1887-1942 ? Galicia / Lodz 156
KAMINSKI
Josef Kaminski A Violinist 1903-1972 Odessa / Warszawa / Tel Aviv 165
KON
Chanoch (Henech) Kon A Musician, Theater Composer 1890-1972 Lodz / Kutno / Warszawa 173
KIPNIS
Menachem Kipnis A Folklorist Researcher, Singer 1878-1942 ? Wolyn / Warszawa 182
RUBINSTEIN
Arthur A Pianist 1887-1982 Lodz 189
SZLOSBERG
Icchak Szlosberg A Conductor, Composer 1877-1930 Russia 197
SZNEUR
Mosze Szneur A Musician, Conductor 1885-1942 Charson / Warszawa 205
SZERMAN
Pinchas Szerman A famous Cantor 1887-1942 Staszow / Warszawa 216

 

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