Re: [Cz-L] Eeek, A change of subject? Joseph Schmidt.

Dear Czernowitzers...
Sometimes I find videos that are associated with Jewish Czernowitz and plac=
e
them in Livejournal "Gruss aus Czernowitz". I can not always know who the
author of this videos.
 That's what they say in the abstract to the first video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8pQn-jiO5hM&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
 Music Documentary / 55 min / 2004
The story of Jewish tenor Joseph Schmidt whose voice touched millions in
the early Thirties. When Germany voted Hitler into power, Schmidt had to
flee. He died in Switzerland at the age of 38.
Directed by Marieke Schroeder
Produced by PARS MEDIA
Co-Produced by SF, ZDF/3sat, ORF, VRT, and YLE
Supported by Media+
WWW.PARSMEDIA.COM <http://www.parsmedia.com/>
Here is a description of the second video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=3Dplayer_embedded&v=3DHsmGmnIMrWY
 "Sch'ma Israel...Adonai hu ho elohim" / Ende Jom-Kippur/ (komponiert von
Louis Lewandowski)"

The slideshow presents images of several synagogues in Berlin and
Czernowitz where Joseph Schmidt used to sing as a chazzan/cantor.

"Dr. Hermann Schildberger, Dirigent der Aufnahmen, erinnerte sich in den
f=FCnfziger Jahren:
=BBDiese Idee, kleineren und kleinsten Cultusgemeinden die M=F6glichkeit zu
geben, durch das Medium der Schallplatte Gottesdienste mit erstklassigen
musikalischen Darbietungen durchzuf=FChren, die sonst ohne Kantor und Chor
abgehalten werden mussten; dieser Plan wurde, nachdem diese Platten 1930
auf dem internationalen Kongress der liberalen Juden in London mit grosstem
Erfolg innerhalb eines Freitag-Gottesdienstes vorgef=FChrt wurden, in die
Praxis umgesetzt. Die Aufnahmen durften nicht ver=F6ffentlicht werden und
blieben im Besitz der Reformgemeinde zu Berlin. Joseph Schmidt hat eine
ganze Reihe dieser Schallplatten besungen, teils solo, teils mit dem Chor,
und seine Aufnahmen geh=F6rten zu den sch=F6nsten der ganzen Sammlung. Das
Hitler-Regime hat dann diese Entwicklung bald unterbrochen. Die gesamte
Sammlung ist zerst=F6rt worden, und es sind wohl nur wenige Exemplare im
Ausland erhalten geblieben, nachdem mir auf dem Transport bei der
Auswanderung einige der besten absichtlich besch=E4digt wurden.=AB"

(c) Alfred Fassbind, "Joseph Schmidt" (thank you, Sarah).
(I do not know who this Sarah :-).
 I'm glad if you like these videos and I invite you to visit the Jewish Mus=
eum
of Chernivtsi:
http://muzejew.nxt.ru/Index-En.html - English
http://muzejew.nxt.ru/Index-De.html - Deutsch

--=20
Sincerely,
Galina Kharaz (Galochka99),
Jerusalem, Israel.

2012/3/24 Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

> We should write "galotchka99" and ask her to also have her explanations
> posted in English.
> The recording is of Joseph Schmidt singing in the Temple in Berlin.
> Not very traditional music. Does anyone know what version of the prayers
> he sang in the temple in Czernowitz?
> My mother, who was born in 1908 and was a neighbor of Schmidt, on
> Karolinengasse #4, told me that she sang in the quire, when Schmidt was
> the cantor at the Czernowitz Tempel next door.
> This may have been as early as 1923 or as late as the early thirties.
>
> Mimi
>
>
>
> On 3/24/12 1:57 AM, "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Czernowitzers...
> >
> > Today on LiveJournal:
> >
> > http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/?poster=3Dgalochka99
> >
> > Have you seen how Joseph Schmidt attracted the girls? Have you heard hi=
m
> > sing the 'Shma'? Have you seen the other things this woman has posted?
> > This galochka99?...
> >
> > Oh, it's so hard if you don't read Ukrainian (or is it Russian?), but
> still
> > there's so much here to see if you choose to look... I believe, but who
> > can tell for sure, with all those backward '3's', that she designed the
> > Czernowitz Museum's Website? Why does she look so sad?
> >
> > Best,
> > jerome

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