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Part 2: Joseph Schmidt, a Star in the Universe!


(day of birth) 04.03.1904 – 28.03.1934 (Der Tag Cz.)

(day of death) 16.11.1942 – 28.02.2012 (actual date)
Learn more about the Joseph Schmidt Asteroid by introducing the code 168321 into the search engine of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The name “Joseph Schmidt” for the asteroid was suggested by the first discoverer, the astronomer Freimut Börngen, and his colleague, the astronomer Markus Giesser.

1994 Yiddish Festival in Czernowitz?

Czernowitzers… Willy Goldmann sent along a YouTube link to this 1 hour 1994 performance of Yiddish music, I presume at the Musikverein in Cz.

The fellow who posted this to YouTube was the same fellow (loveboris100) who made the one hour film on Jewish Czernowitz, narrated in Ukrainian, that we brought to your attention some time ago.

So, who is the singer; the pianist; the storyteller? What is the occasion and was I correct about the location?

Help me out here — please make your comments below.

jerome

P.S. Also from Willy this  recording of the magnificent voice Josef Schmidt singing the Shma (1929). Background scenes of the synagogues he sang in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsmGmnIMrWY&feature=related

j.