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- From: fritzj@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Fritz Friedlaender)
- Subject: Re: Jewish Singers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.043203.2490@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Summary: Josef Schmidt
- Sender: fritzj@ecn.purdue.edu
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:32:03 GMT
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- Bob Westover writes about Josef Schmidt (text deleted)...
- Just read an article in Dec. 18, 1992 Aufbau (German-Jewish newspaper
- published in New York). Schmidt was born in Davideny (Bukowina) on
- March 4, 1904. His major successes as a singer - he started as a chasan -
- came on the new medium, the radio, starting in 1929. He was of small
- stature (1.54 m) - his greatest film success "Ein Lied geht um die Welt"
- (May 9, 1933 in Berlin, when his persecution by the Nazis also started).
- After many attempts to find a safe haven, he managed to escape to
- Switzerland where he was interned and died after a short illness
- on November 16, 1942.
- There are a number of CD's with his songs, e.g. 2 vols. by EMI:
- CDHB 64673 and CDHB 64676, also 2 CD's by "Relief", sold by Albany records
- in USA (CR 921036 and 921037). There is more, incl. a mono record
- (Preiser Records, 90145). All the above copied, with typos possible, from
- above reference. Finally, a book about Schmidt (Alfred A. Fassbind:
- "Josef Schmidt - Ein Lied geht um die Welt - Spuren einer Legende",
- Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zuerich 1992). I have some 78rpm records featuring
- Schmidt, hence my enthusiasm. The article also shows a picture of a memorial
- tablet in the Jewish "Gemeindehaus" (communal center?) in Berlin on
- which Schmidt and Richard Tauber are memorialized.
- Hope that this is a more appropiate contribution to S.C.J.; I agree with
- Bob Westover.... Incidentally, I had the pleasure of meeting Jan Peerce
- when he came to perform at Purdue University with the Bach Chorale over
- 30 years ago, and took him to get a milkshake after a reception at the
- local Hillel. A story goes with that, but I promised Peerce not to tell it.
- (It is a religion-related story. Peerce was quite observant).
- FJF
- fritzj@ecn.purdue.edu
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