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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