Issakhar Fater: "Jewish Music in Poland between the World Wars"

We Remember The Jewish Musicians!

Issachar Fater:

"Jewish Music in Poland between the World Wars"
Hakkibutz Hameuchad

http://kibutz-poalim.co.il/

Tel Aviv, 1992 (Hebrew)
ISBN 965-02-0060-6

Cover: Yosel Berger

The book was written originally and published in Yiddish:

Fater, Issachar. Yidishe Muzik in Poiln: Tzvishn Beide Velt-Milkhamos/Jewish Music in Poland Between the Two World Wars. Tel Aviv, Welt-Federatzie fun Poilishe Yidn, 1970

Marc Chagall: Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel ca. 1938

Lexicon of Jewish Musicians in Poland
A Partial List

Pages 237-346

Translated, Extracted and Compiled by Ada Holtzman, September 2003

The original text contains short biographies of each musician. I shall send a copy if someone is interested in a certain musician's biography. Ada Holtzman email: ada001 "at" netvision.net.il (replace "at" by @ to avoid spam)

A B CD E F G H JK L M NOP R S TU W Z

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
home A CD E F G H JK L M NOP R S TU W Z
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
	Chaim Beigelman was a violinist and a saxophone player. He was the son of Szymon. He was born in Lodz at 1916 and studied music there. He was educated in the environment and atmosphere of Jewish music lovers and he excelled in his music playing. He played in the entertainment theater "Ararat" and later in night clubs. Chaim was the only survivor of the Beigelman family. After ghetto Lodz he was in various German Concentration Camps and in the end was liberated in the small town of Kamm in Bavaria, where he founded an orchestra name "The Happy Boys", who served the American Forces in Germany. With this orchestra he also played before the Displaces Persons Camps in Germany. Later on he immigrated to the United States and he settled there.
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	Stanislaw	A pianist and composer		1891-?	Warszawa	251
26	BEM	Czeslaw	A viola player		1883-1942 Holocaust	Warszawa	244
27	BEREZOWSKI	Szraga 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 Birenbaum		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	BODENSTEIN	Adasz	A pianist		1911-	Szpola (Ukraine) / Warszawa	244
38	BODENSTEIN	Chaim	A viola player		1908-1981	Szpola (Ukraine) / Warszawa	244
39	BODENSTEIN	Stanislaw	A violinist		1906-1939	Szpola (Ukraine) / Warszawa	245
40	BORENSTEIN	Cwi	A singer and a cantor		-	Warszawa	247
41	BORUNSKI	Leon	A pianist		1909-1942 ²⁾	Warszawa	246
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 near Warsaw. Borunski was the husband of the well known actress in Poland Stefania Gorska.
42	BRAUN	Paulina	A composer and texts writer		? - 1943 (Maidanek)	Warszawa	252
Pola Braun was a composer and texts writer. She lived in Warsaw and composed music to the Polish theater. In the Warsaw ghetto she wrote poems which were sung by the singer Diana Blumenfeld. Among her famous poems: "Zuruk a hajm" (return home), "hat rachmanut" (please have pity), "a chalom" (a dream) and others. She was murdered in Majdanek during the year of 1943.
43	BRI	Emil	A jazz violinist		-	-	253
44	BROJDE	Katriel	A folklore composer		1907-1945 (Koenisberg)	Wilna	253
45	BUSEL	Eliahu	A singing tea