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Shaul Berezovsky (sometimes spelt Berezowski) (1908-1975) was a Polish Jewish composer, pianist, music director. Born in Grodno, 1926-1929 studied at Warsaw conservatory and later lived in Białystok, where he directed the orchestra at the Apollo and had a jazz band in the military.〔Fater, Isaschar (1970). Jewish Music in Poland between the Two World Wars〕 Between the wars he toured with Yiddish theater companies, directing the orchestras or as a piano accompanist. During the war he was music director for Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher's revi-teater productions in Russia. After their arrest, he was arranger and accompanist for actress-singer Anna Guzik. After the war he returned to Poland and settled in Łódź, directing the folk-choir, wrote music for Ida Kaminska's Yiddish Melokhishe (State) theater (''Hershele Ostropolyer, In a vinter-nakht'' and others) and composed music for films: ''Mir ibergeblibene (We survivors)'' and ''Undzere kinder (Our children)'') He also directed the Russian ''Kalinka'' choir.〔 He settled in Israel in 1957 where he continued to work in Yiddish theater.〔Iskhok Turkow-Grundberg, ''Yidishe teater in Poyln'', p. 117〕 he wrote music for theater and cinema (including the play and movie "Tsvey kuni Leml" with Mike Burstyn, 1963), and conducted various orchestras. He died on 2 April 1975 in Tel Aviv. Some of his famous songs include: * ''Unter di khurves fun Poyln (under the ruins of Poland)'' to poetry of Itzik Manger * ''Ikh Bin Mid (I am tired)'', also to Manger * ''In geto'' * to poetry of Mordechai Gebirtig * ''Dem Zeydns Nign (Grandfather's tune)'' * ''Baym Taykh (By the river)'' to poetry of Mani Leib ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaul Berezovsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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