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David Werdyger (Hebrew: אלתר דוד יצחק ורדיגר; 30 October 1919 – 2 April 2014) was a Polish-American Hasidic hazzan and solo singer. A Holocaust survivor who was incarcerated in several Nazi concentration camps, including the factory run by Oskar Schindler, Werdyger moved to Brooklyn, New York, after World War II and began recording albums featuring the music of the Bobov ...
Mordechai Werdyger (born April 16, 1951) is an American Israeli Chasidic Jewish singer and songwriter who is popular in the Orthodox Jewish community. He is the son of cantor David Werdyger and uses the stage name Mordechai Ben David ( Hebrew: מרדכי בן דוד, romanized : Mordocháy Ben-Davíd, lit. 'Mordechai, son of David') or its ...
Yehudah "Yeedle" Werdyger (born 1971) is an American Hasidic Jewish singer. He is the son of singer Mordechai Werdyger (stage name: Mordechai Ben David, MBD) and grandson of the cantor David Werdyger . Yeedle (יידל) is a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew name Yehudah ( יהודה )
Yaakov Dov (Yankel) Talmud (18 December 1885 – October 1965) [1] was a Hasidic composer of Jewish liturgical music and choirmaster in the main synagogue of the Gerrer Rebbes both in Ger, Poland, and in Jerusalem, Israel. Known as "the Beethoven of the Gerrer Rebbes", [1] he composed dozens of new melodies every year for the prayer services ...
Werdyger has re-mastered four CDs using computer software to clear up the distortions on the original records. Family. Werdyger is a son of the hazzan (cantor) David Werdyger, brother of singer Mordechai Ben David, and uncle of singer Yeedle Werdyger (Mordechai's son). [citation needed] His son Yisroel released his second album in 2010.
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
David Goodhue, Gabriela Henriquez Stoikow. August 16, 2024 at 6:39 AM. The FBI raided a Doral body shop on Friday morning and arrested the owner in connection to the investigation of the plot to ...
Within the traditional Jewish community, cantoral and chasiddic melodies were the musical standard.. In the 1950s and early 1960s recordings began to be made of non-cantorial Jewish music, beginning with Ben Zion Shenker's recording of the music of the Modzitz chassidic sect [2] and Cantor David Werdyger's Gerrer recordings.