Re: [Cz-L]Short bio of Cantor Gedalya Gurman from the Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre

Hi Steven, The Kantor Gurman had a wonderful voice..As child.at Rosh Ha
Shanah and Jom Kipur I paid visit to my grandmother and mother at the big
Temple.they were sitting in the second floor.There were two floors for women
and the man prayed in the big aula...The Temple was like a theater, on the
scene was praying Rabby Dr.Mark and the Kantor Gurman sang...it was
remarcable, like an event....it was in the years 1932-36...
Hedwig
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From: "Steven Lasky" <steve725_at_optonline.net>
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:18 AM
Subject: [Cz-L]Short bio of Cantor Gedalya Gurman from the Lexicon of the
Yiddish Theatre

> This comes from the fifth volume of the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre".
> This fifth volume is the memorial book to those who were once somehow
> involved with the Yiddish theatre who were killed by or at the behest of
> the Nazis:
>
> Gedalya Gurman
>
>
> Born in 1883 in Uman, Ukraine.
>
> In 1924 he began to work as a singer of Yiddish folksongs while at the
> same time as a chazzan (cantor) and concertist with liturgical programs.
> He went to Bucharest and Czernowitz, and after crossed over the very old
> and new Romania.
>
> In 1920 he searched for a brother in Africa and there recorded on a
> gramophone plate several numbers from his repertoire. Returning to
> Romania, he again recorded himself per his profession as a chazzan, until
> the summer of 1941 when the Nazis had captured Czernowitz.
>
> Soon after they entered, the Gestapo came for him in his apartment,
> carried him away to the Czernowitzer Culture Palace, and from there to the
> Prut, where he was killed.
>
> Ilya Ehrenburg in his "shvarz buch (Black Book)", published also in
> Romania in 1946, mentioned his tragic end.
>
> G.'s wife Mindl (Manya) in 1942 was deported and was killed in Shargorod,
> Transylvania. Their daughter Sonia and her husband Shmuel Fischler were
> actors in the Bucharest Yiddish State Theatre.
>
> [The testimony was given by a Julian Schwartz, though I can't say who this
> is.]
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Steven Lasky
> www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
> blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com
> steve_at_museumoffamilyhistory.com
>

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