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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

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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