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Lexicon of Jewish Musicians in Poland

A Partial List

Translated, Extracted and Compiled by Ada Holtzman

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No. Surname Name The Musician Years Town Page 1 AGEMAN Lea A teacher ?-1942 Holocaust Warszawa 239 2 AGEMAN Mojzesz A conductor ?-1942 Holocaust Warszawa 239 3 ALTENBERG Marian A pianist and a conductor 1907-1943 Warszawa 241 4 ALTERMAN Hilel The first cantor of Lodz 1849-1934 Russia / Lodz 241 5 ANHALT Pawel A musician, theoretician – – 229 6 APTE Henryk, Dr. A Vilonist ?-1942 Krakow 241 7 ARNOLD-HERSTEIN Roza, Dr. A pianist, pedagogue, manager of a music school 1896 - ? Krakow / Rzeszow 243 8 ARONOWICZ Dan A composer and music critic 1909-1981 Pultusk 242 9 ARONOWICZ Zygmunt A pianist – Warszawa 243 10 AUSTERLIC Karol A jazz player 1906- Warszawa 240 11 BAGON Ber A conductor, composer – Wilna 244 12 BAKMAN Icchak A cellist WWII, died in Russia Radom 245 13 BAKMAN Szymon A violinist virtuoso – Radom 245 14 BAR Maria Miriam A pianist and a pedagogue – Warszawa 246 15 BARUCH Waclaw A violinist Holocaust Warszawa 246 16 BAS Szalom Choirmaster and a teacher Holocaust (Partisan) Danielowicz (near Wilna) 245 17 BAUER Marek Dr. A violinist and a pedagogue Holocaust (Janow) Lwow 245 18 BEIGELMAN Abraham A pianist Holocaust Lodz 247 19 BEIGELMAN Chaim A violinist and a saxophone player 1916 - Lodz (the only Survivor) 247 20 BEIGELMAN Chanan A saxophonist and accordionist 1916 - Holocaust Lodz 248 21 BEIGELMAN Salomon A violinist Holocaust Lodz 248 22 BEIGELMAN Szymon A clarinet player, theater musician Holocaust ? Ostrowiec 248 23 BELZACZKI Dawid A conductor and composer – Warszawa 251 24 BELZACZKI Jerzy A pianist and composer – – 251 25 BELZACZKI Stanisław A pianist and composer 1891-? Warszawa 251 26 BEM Czeslaw A viola player 1883-1942 Holocaust Warszawa 244 27 BEREZOWSKI Fajwel A choirmaster and a teacher for singing – Warszawa / Grodno 251 28 BEREZOWSKI Szaul A Yiddish theater musician 1908-1975 Grodno / Bialystok 252 29 BERKMAN Bernard A pianist and a pedagogue Holocaust Warszawa 252 30 BERMAN Jakub A choirmaster and a composer 1860-1932 Zdzieciol / Bialystok 251 31 BIALOSTOCKI Zygmunt A pianist and a composer ? 1942 Warszawa 247 32 BILIG Adolf Dr. A violinist 1900 - Holocaust Krakow 248 33 BIRNBAUM Abraham Ber A cantor, composer and a pedagogue 1865-1922 Pultusk 248 34 BIRNBAUM Zdzislaw A conductor 1880-1922 Warszawa, Berlin 250 35 BLECHAROWICZ Abraham A cantor and opera singer ?-1968 ? Near Wilna, Riga, Warszawa 250 36 BLUMENFELD Diana A folklorist singer 1906-1961 Warszawa 250 37 BODENSZTAJN Adasz A pianist 1911- Szpola (Ukraine) / Warszawa 244 38 BODENSZTAJN Chaim A viola player 1908-1981 Szpola (Ukraine) / Warszawa 244 39 BODENSTEIN Stanisław A violinist 1906-1939 Szpola (Ukraine) / Warszawa 245 40 BORENSTEIN Cwi A singer and a cantor – Warszawa 247 41 BORUNSKI Leon A pianist. Winner of the Chopin Prize contest in Poland. He was among the best accompanists in Poland. He played in entertainment theaters “Morskie Oko” and “Qui Pro Quo”. During the war he was in Russia and played with the ensemble of Edi Rosner. After his return to Poland he was murdered by Poles in Otwock[1] near Warsaw. Borunski was the husband of the well known actress in Poland Stefania Gorska. 1909-1942 Warszawa 246 42 BRAUN Pola A composer and texts writer ? - 1943 (Maidanek) Warszawa 252 43 BRI Emil A jazz violinist – – 253 44 BROJDE Katriel A folklore composer 1907-1945 (Koenisberg) Wilna 253 45 BUSEL Eliahu A singing teacher and a conductor Holocaust Dziatlowo 247 46 CENTNERSZWER Maksymilian A violinist, music critic – Warszawa 318 47 CHAJKIN Szymszon A violinist, soloist and pedagogue ? Holocaust (Astonia) ? Lithuania 286 48 CYMBLER A. Dr. A theoretician, musicologist and a pedagogue – Russia, Wilna 318 49 CYMERMAN Chaim Dr. A cantor and singer – Lublin 318 50 CYMERMAN Jakub A violinist and  violins repairer. Was born in Staszów. In his youth, he taught himself to play the violin, and later he learnt from a local Kleizmer. He moved to Warsaw, where he was vilolin-maker and repaired violins.  Great  artists were among those who visited his workshop. They were impressed by his work and asked his opinion on the sound of the violin.                                                        (Translated by a descendant, Nadav Eshkar) – Staszow 318 51 DARGUZANSKI Mojzesz A conductor, singing teacher and music critic 1867-1930 Olkieniki / Trok 262 52 DATYNER Herman Dr. A pianist, accompanist and music activist – Warszawa 262 53 DATYNER Leon A singer and Zionist activist – Warszawa 262 54 DAWIDOWICZ LICHTERMAN Sonia A pianist and accompanist – Warszawa 262 55 DIAMANT Ala A soprano singer – Lodz 265 56 DOBRZYNIEC A. A violinist, part of a quartet 1897-1944 Holocaust Warszawa 261 57 DOBRZYNIEC Stanislaw A violinist and a conductor – Warszawa 261 58 DOLICKA Hilda A soprano drama singer – Warszawa 262 59 DOREMBUS Nachman A choirmaster – Zakroczym 263 60 DROBNER Mieczyslaw A pedagogue and a music theoretician – Krakow 265 61 DURMASZKIN Akiwa A conductor, composer and a cantor Holocaust (Wilna) Radom / Wilna 265 62 DURMASZKIN Wolf A pianist, accompanist and a conductor 1914-1944 Holocaust (Astonia) Wilna 263 63 EDEL Icchak A conductor, pedagogue and a compo 1896-1973 Warszawa 237 64 EIDELSON Josef A cantor and a singer 1910 -? Warszawa 241 65 EIGER Wladyslaw A pianist and a compositor – Lodz 240 66 ELBAUM Wladyslaw A soloist pianist – Warszawa 238 67 ELBOJM Samuel A musician and a conductor 1892-1942 Holocaust Kutno 238 68 ELMAN Adam A singer – Warszawa 239 69 ENGLENDER Szymon A violinist and a pedagogue – Warszawa 239 70 ERWEST Ida A singer ?-1942 Holocaust Warszawa 239 71 ETKIN Roza A soloist pianist – Warszawa 238 72 FALKOWSKA Lena A pianist and a pedagogue – Warszawa 311 73 FAMILIER-HEFNER Janina A pianist Holocaust (Aktion in Ghetto Warszawa) Warszawa 311 74 FATER Issachar A musician, conductor, pedagogue and a music researcher 1912- Drobin, Zakroczym, Warszawa 309 75 FATER Szmuel Icchak A cantor and a composer 1888-1942 Holocaust (Warszawa Ghetto) Makow Mazowiecki, Drobin, Zakroczym 308 76 FEIER Bernardo A conductor and a teacher of singing 1910-1967 Lwow 314 77 FEIERBERG Zygmunt – – – 249 78 FEIFER Roza A singer – Warszawa 314 79 FEINSTEIN Edwarda A pianist, soloist and an accompanist – Warszawa 313 80 FEINSTEIN Regina A pianist & an accompanist – Warszawa 314 81 FELTENSTEIN Stefania A virtuoso pianist – Warszawa 316 82 FERSZKO Chaim A pianist and a composer – Warszawa 316 83 FERSZKO Michael A pianist and accompanist ?-1942 Holocaust Luck 316 84 FERSZKO Sara A singer – – 31 85 FERSZKO Stanislaw (Szmuel) A pianist accompanist – Luck 316 86 FIEDLER Bobi A saxophone player and jazz player ? - 1942 Holocaust Warszawa 312 87 FILIP Ludwik A musician, opera and theater orchestras conductor 1901- ? Lwow 314 88 FISCHAUT Josef A professor, pianist, accompanist and a pedagogue ? 1942 Holocaust Warszawa 314 89 FISCHMAN Henryk A violinist 1896-1942 Holocaust Warszawa 315 90 FITELBERG Grzegorz A violinist, conductor and a composer 1879-1953 Dwinsk (Latvia), Warsaw Poland 312 91 FLASTER Juta A pianist, soloist Holocaust Krakow 315 92 FLATO Arkadi A violinist, jazz player – Warszawa 315 93 FLIDERBAUM Mieczyslaw Mosze A violinist, player in string quartet, conductor 1896-? Petersburg, Warszawa 315 94 FOLGER Dr. Martzin A violinist and a conductor. Born in Brod, Galicia; he studied music in Vienna. Upon his return to Poland, he settled in Stanislawaw. conducted and taught there at the gymnasium. During many years, he conducted the orchestra of the Association named after Munioshko. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1941. ?-1941 Holocaust Brody, Stanislawow 310 95 FOLMAN Lola A folklore singer and soloist – Warszawa 311 96 FREIMAN - SOSNOWSKA Izabela A pianist, musicologist and music critic – Krakow 317 97 FRENKEL Meir choir master – Kutno 317 98 FRIEDMAN Salomon – – – 253 99 FRONT Julek A violinist – Warszawa 317 100 FRYDLAND Aleksander A violinist and conductor 1915- ??? 253 101 FURMANSKI Adam A trumpeter and conductor 1883-1943 Holocaust (Aktion in Ghetto Warszawa) Warszawa 311 102 GELBART Israel Jehoszua A teacher of singing 1895-1942 Holocaust (Aktion in Ghetto Lodz) Ozorkow / Lodz 260 103 GELBRUN Artur A violinist, conductor and composer 1913-1985 Warszawa 260 104 GELERNETER Kazimierz A young pianist – Warszawa 260 105 GERSZOWICZ Tamara A pianist and pedagogue – Wilna 259 106 GERSZTERNKORN J. A viola player – Warszawa 261 107 GERT Jerzy A composer and conductor 1908-1968 Tarnow 261 108 GERTL Mechl (Michal) A musician and cultural activist – Hrubieszow 261 109 GIMPEL Adolf A violinist, player of clarinet and theater conductor 1875-? Holocaust (Lwow Ghetto) Lwow 256 109a GIMPEL Bronislaw A violinist ? - 1979 Lwow AS 110 GIMPEL Jakub, (Kuba) A pianist 1906 - Died in Los Angeles (1996?) (AS) Lwow 256 111 GIMPEL Karol A pianist 1890-1942 (hospital in Buchara)[2] Lwow 256 112 GINZBURG Arie vel Alfred A violinist 1911-1980 Warszawa 256 113 GINZBURG Baruch vel Boleslaw A celist 1906-1990 War 257 114 GINZBURG Dow vel Bronislaw A pianist, percussion instruments player and composer 1906-1989 Warszawa 258 115 GINZBURG Grzegorz A violinist 1904 - Warszawa 257 116 GINZBURG Pesach Pawel A viola player 1881-1944 Warszawa 258 117 GISER P. A music teacher and violinist – Radom 258 118 GLATSTEIN Josef Szlomo A choirmaster and music critic 1890-1942 Holocaust (Warszawa Ghetto) Lublin 259 119 GLEZER Chanan A choirmaster 1904-1942 Holocaust (Kovno) Wilna 260 120 GOLD Adam A clarinetist – – 259 121 GOLD Artur A violinist and composer of dance music 1897-1943 Holocaust Warszawa 254 122 GOLDBERG Filip A jazz player – Warszawa 254 123 GOLDBERG Szymon A violinist artist and conductor 1909-1991 Wloclawek 254 124 GOLDBLUM Artur An engineer, composer – Radom 254 125 GOLDSTEIN Jakub A cantor and singer 1897- ? Warszawa 255 126 GOLDSTEIN Josef A pianist, pedagogue and opera conductor 1899-? Kalisz 255 127 GORNOWSKI Jan A violinist – Warszawa 255 128 GOTLIB Zdizsław A violinist, clarinet and a saxophone player – – 253 129 GUTWERK Mosze choirmaster and composer 1906-1942 Holocaust Wars 255 130 HABER Leopold A pianist and organizer of jazz orchestra – Krakow 265 131 HAK Szmuel A choirs conductor and a singing teacher – Luck 269 132 HALLER Tinka A singer and teacher of singing – Stanislawow 266 133 HALPERIN Henryk A violinist and conductor 1896 -? Warszawa 266 134 HALPERIN Maksimilian A contrabass player and conductor of entertainment theaters 1869 - ? Lublin 266 135 HAMERMAN Israel A pianist, accompanist and conductor 1914-1943 Holocaust (Ghetto Warszawa) Warszawa / Lwow 267 136 HARRIS Albert A musician, texts writer and jazz player – – 270 137 HARRIS Miecislaw A musician and texts writer – Lublin 270 138 HEILMAN Icchak A conductor and pedagogue 1906 - Lwow 270 139 HEIMAN Zygmunt A jazz player and a banjo player – Warszawa 271 140 HELLER Leon A violinist and saxophone player, mainly jazz music 1908 or 1906 Warszawa 272 141 HENDEL Ida A violinist 1925 - Chelm 272 142 HERMELIN Artur A soloist pianist 1901-1943 Lwow 273 143 HERMELIN Natan, Law Dr. A violinist, conductor and composer 1875-1941 Holocaust (Lwow, Suicide) Lwow 273 144 HERSZMAN Mordechai A cantor and musician 1886-1943 ? From Wolyn 273 145 HERSZMAN Szlomo A cantor and singer – ? From Wolyn 274 146 HIMELSTEIN Abraham Mordechai A musician, conductor 1905-1978 Warszawa, Grodzisk, Plock 271 147 HIRSCHFELD Jakub A pianist, accompanist, opera conductor and pedagogue. 1870-1934 Warszawa 272 148 HIRSCHIN Eliahu (Elinke) A cantor, conductor, composer and a writer 1876-1960 Plonsk, Warszawa 271 149 HOFFMAN Jan A pianist, admirer of Chopin, a pedagogue – Krakow 268 150 HOFFMAN Jehuda Juliusz A musician, conductor and accompanist 1878-1941 Holocaust (Auschwitz) Odessa / Krakow 268 151 HOFFMAN Mieczyslaw Mietek A pianist and an accompanist Holocaust (Lwow) Krakow 268 152 HOFMAN Dr. Szlomo A composer, musicologist and pedagogue 1909 - Warszawa 268 153 HOFMAN Tobiasz Szymon A tenor singer 1907-1942 Holocaust Warszawa 268 154 HOFMEKLER Liole A conductor Holocaust (Wilna, Ponar) Wilna / Kowno 269 155 HOLCMAN Ludwik A violinist and conductor 1889-1942 Holocaust (Treblinka) ? Near Warszawa 266 156 HOROWIC Marceli A violinist, pedagogue and conductor 1909-1942 Holocaust (Lwow) Stryj / Lwow 269 157 JEDWABNIK Dawid, Dr. A musician, activist, artists and musicians guardian – Wilna 286 158 JELENSKI Hirsz A singer – Lwow 286 159 JOFE Miron A pianist and master choir – Radom 286 160 JOSELZON Tadeusz A violinist and saxophone player – Lodz 285 161 JOSKOWICZ Abraham Iser choirmaster and A singing teacher Holocaust (Wilna) Piatnica near Lomza 286 162 KAC Albert A cellist, chamber music player and conductor 1910- Wilna 287 163 KAC J. A viola player – Warszawa 287 164 KAC Mordechai Markus A cantor and singer – Near Krzemieniec in Wolyn District 287 165 KAC Renate A soprano lyric singer – – 287 166 KACMAN Dawid A cantor, lyric tenor singer – Lwow, Bialystok 323 167 KAGAN Jakub A pianist, jazz player – Warszawa 319 168 K- KOCHANOWSKI Feliks A violinist and operas conductor 1889-1943 Holocaust Nowogrodek 319 169 KAGAN - KOCHANOWSKI Mieczyslaw A violinist and operas conductor 1887-1943 Holocaust Nowogrodek 319 170 KALECKI Jakub – – – 270 171 KALMANOWICZ Halina A pianist, soloist ? - 1942 Holocaust Wilna 321 172 KAMINSKI - GORDUS Klara A singing teacher – Warszawa 321 173 KAMPELMACHER Bernard A singing teacher and conductor – Galicia, Sochaczew 321 174 KANTOROWICZ Aleksander A violinist, conductor and pedagogue 1900- Wilna 322 175 KAPLAN Pesach A conductor, composer and music critic ? - 1943 Holocaust (Bialystok) Bialystok 322 176 KASZOWSKI Frydryk A trumpeter, soloist – Warszawa 323 177 KATASZEK Szymon A pianist, conductor of jazz bands ? - 1943 Holocaust (Warszawa) Warszawa 320 178 KINSTLER Becalel A choirmaster – Lwow 327 179 KIRSZBRAUN Arnold Dr. A violinist and musicologist – Warszawa 327 180 KLECKI Pawel A conductor, composer and violinist 1900-1973 Lodz 328 181 KLEIMAN Teodor A violinist, player in quartet and soloist – Lublin, Warszawa 327 182 KLINICKI Mendel A singer, lyric tenor – Luck 327 183 KLINICKI Rywka A lyric soprano singer – Luck 327 184 KLINKOWSTEIN Szmuel A violinist and cellist – Plock 328

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