JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

Including the following two chapters:
'Famous klezmers' (109-146):
121-127 - Including references to klezmers and their bands in Galicia, among them Yosl Klezmer, and the song about him by Naphtali Gross (121-123; also 87-89), the klezmer band Meir, Abraham and Simcah in Tlust, and on the ballad about Meir by Shimshon Meltzer (123-124), about the band, 'The Czortkower klezmers', the father Shmuel Czortkower - Weintraub and his son Yosi Vovi - Yosef Vapsy, and the description of them by Dov Sadan (125-127), about two bands in Brody, 'The Black' headed by the Topaz family, and 'The Red', run by the Rosenblum family, and the peace that the pharmacist Leon Kallir, one of the community leaders and 'the Kaiser's advisor' made between them (126-127).
141-143 - About the musicians in Lemberg, among them Isaac Tsitren (Tsitermeister) and Joseph Navlai (the Harfenspieler), the Kosch family, among them Nathan, his son Shlomo who establisheda men's band, including his sons Leib and Yerachmiel, Herman and Chaim Noss, Feliks Ayalah, the Schwartzman family, the Raphal Shabtai family, the Schweider family, the Schatz brothers, Stricks, and the Wolfsthal family (142), and mainly the son the celloist Chune, 1853-1924, who became famous as a composer and established The Wolfsthal Brothers' Band (142-143). 'Klezmers in Folk Tales' (147-153): 148-149 - 'Tune of Joy and Sadness (from Chassidic Tales)' - about Moshe Leib Erblich of Sassov.