Look up artist Schwartz, Maurice
Name: Schwartz, Maurice
Born: June 18, 1890 (Sedikov, Ukraine)
Died: May 10, 1960 (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Note: Emigrated to US 1901/See Vorbei 473
Related information in folder 283:- Comments: 1. Article in the Yiddish Forward by Melakh Ravitch titled "Maurice Schwartz tzu zayn 50stn Yortzayt" (Maurice Schwartz on the 50th anniversary of his death.)
2. Article by Joel Schechter in the English Forward, June 11, 2010, titled "Awake and Act, for It Can Happen Here; a 75th anniversary tribute to the Yiddish actors of the Works Progress Administration, mentioning plays by Sholom Aleichem, Peretz, Sholom Asch and H. Leivick.
Songs written or composed
Title: A Khazn A Shiker -- אַ חזן אַ שיכּור
Author: Schwartz, Maurice
Genre: Theater/Lament
Subject: Cantor/Poverty/Drunkeness/Occupation
Recordings:
On album: V-015(i) (Vorbei… Beyond Recall, CD 9/ A Record of Jewish musical life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938)
Track ID: 31584
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish
Style: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length: 8:09
On album: 031a (Schwartz, Maurice/ A Khazn A Shiker/)
Track ID: 29654
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 312
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Other tracks with this artist
Title: Der Batlunim Tants ("Der Dibuk") -- דער בּטלנים טאַנץ (פֿון "דער דיבּוק")
On album: S-003(a) (Maurice Schwartz in Scenes and Episodes From Plays)
Track ID: 3073
Author S. Ansky -- ש. אַנסקי
Composer Cherniavsky, Joseph -- טשערניאָװסקי, יאָסף
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Artist Schwartz, Menakhem, narration -- שװאַרץ, מנחם, נאַראַטאָר
Piano Rothpearl, Rochelle -- ראָטפּערל, ראָשעל
Track comment: Nigun sung by Maurice Schwartz & Khasidim in "Der Dibuk"
Style: Nigun
Title: Der Batlunim Tants ("Der Dibuk") -- דער בּטלנים טאַנץ (פֿון "דער דיבּוק")
On album: T-001(a) (Masterworks Of The Yiddish Theatre Volume 1)
Track ID: 3074
Composer Cherniavsky, Joseph -- טשערניאָװסקי, יאָסף
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Track comment: Nigun sung by Maurice Schwarts & Khasidim in "Dibuk"
Style: Nigun
Title: Der Fonfivater Magid -- דער פֿאָנפֿיװאַטער מגיד
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 3119
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish
Style: Spoken Word
Title: Shiru Shabtai Tsvi -- שירו שבּתאי צבי
Also known as: Shiru
Author: Julovsky, Yeszhe
Composer: Olshanetsky, Alexander -- אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre: Theater/Historical
Subject: Shabtai Tsvi/Messiah/Praise
Origin: Levin N 144/SM 1312
Transliteration: Levin N 144/SM 1312
Translation: Levin N. 144
Music: SM 1312
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 13948
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
First line: Shiru ladonoy shir khodosh, shir khodosh kol hoamim.
First line:שירה, צום באַשעפֿער לאָמיר זינגען, פֿון אַלע פֿעלקער אַ גאַנץ נײַע...
Track comment: Choral group and monologue by Schwartz
Language: Hebrew/Yiddish
Title: Uncle Moses -- אָנקל מאָזעס
Author: Asch, Sholom -- אַש, שלום
Genre: Film/Militant
Subject: Labor/Strikes/Union/Boss/Sweatshop/Love/Values
On album: V0012 (Uncle Moses (Video) -- אָנקל מאָזעס (ווידיאָ))
Track ID: 33824
Uncle Moses Schwartz, Maurice
Music Polonsky, Samuel
Director Goldberg, Rubin
Director Goldin, Sidney
Actor Abarbanel, Judith
Actor Goldberg, Rubin
Language: Yiddish
Length: 80:00
Title: A Khazn Vos Hust -- אַ חזן װאָס הוסט
Also known as: Histendiker Khazn
Genre: Spoken Word/Sketch/Character Study/Monologue/Humorous
Subject: Khazn/Cough/Congregation
Additional song notes: Coughing Cantor
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 315
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish
Style: Monolog/Spoken Word
Title: A Khazn Vos Hust -- אַ חזן װאָס הוסט
Also known as: Histendiker Khazn
Genre: Spoken Word/Sketch/Character Study/Monologue/Humorous
Subject: Khazn/Cough/Congregation
Additional song notes: Coughing Cantor
On album: C-023(f) (The Golden Years of Cantorial Music Vol. 1)
Track ID: 316
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish
Style: Monolog/Spoken Word
Title: Anathema
Author: Andreyov, Lenoid Nikolaevitch
Genre: Literary Origin
On album: S-003(c) (Maurice Schwartz / Anathema)
Track ID: 31531
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish/Dramatic
Style: Spoken Word
Length: 8:18
Title: Di Goldene Keyt (Fragment) -- די גאָלדענע קײט (פֿראַגמענט)
On album: S-003(a) (Maurice Schwartz in Scenes and Episodes From Plays)
Track ID: 3562
Author Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush -- פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Composer Perlmutter, Arnold (Aaron) פּערלמוטער, אַרנאָלד (אהרן)
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Artist Schwartz, Risa, narration -- שװאַרץ, ריסאַ, נאַראַטאָר
Piano Rothpearl, Rochelle -- ראָטפּערל, ראָשעל
Track comment: Excerpt from "The Golden Chain" by Perets
Language: Yiddish
Title: Dos Heylige Shnayderl -- דאָס הײליגע שנײַדערל
Also known as: Kiddush Hashem (Excerpt)
Author: Asch, Sholom -- אַש, שלום
Composer: Achron, Yosef -- אחרון, יוסף
Genre: Theatre
Subject: Tailor/Lamed Vov/Faith
Song Comment: From the play based on novel of same name "Kiddish Hasem".
On album: S-003(a) (Maurice Schwartz in Scenes and Episodes From Plays)
Track ID: 4051
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Narration Mercur, Wolf -- מערקור, װאָלף
Piano Rothpearl, Rochelle -- ראָטפּערל, ראָשעל
First line: Bin ikh mir a shnayderl, trog ikh in a torbele,
First line (Yiddish):בין איך מיר אַ שנײַדערל, טראָג איך אין אַ טאָרבעלע,
Track comment: Excerpt from the play "Kidush Hashem"
Language: Yiddish
Style: Incidental Theatre Music/Recitation/
Title: Dos Heylige Shnayderl -- דאָס הײליגע שנײַדערל
Also known as: Kiddush Hashem (Excerpt)
Author: Asch, Sholom -- אַש, שלום
Composer: Achron, Yosef -- אחרון, יוסף
Genre: Theatre
Subject: Tailor/Lamed Vov/Faith
Song Comment: From the play based on novel of same name "Kiddish Hasem".
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 4052
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
First line: Men ruft mir dos heylige shnayderl, ikh bin bakant in ale...
First line (Yiddish):מען רופֿט מיר דאָס הײליגע שנײַדערל, איך בין באַקאָנט אין אַלע…
Track comment: Excerpt from the play "Kidush Hashem"
Language: Yiddish
Style: Spoken Word
Title: A Khazn A Shiker -
On album: 047e (Schwartz, Maurice/ A Khazn A Shiker -/ teyl 1 un 2)
Track ID: 30123
Artist: Schwartz, Maurice
Title: Meshugner Moshiakh -
On album: 047f (Schwartz, Maurice/ Meshugner Moshiakh -/ teyl 1 un 2)
Track ID: 30125
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Title: Meshuganer Meshiekh -- משוגענער משיח
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 10322
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
First line: Meshiekh, (4x), vi men geyt, vi men shteyt, vi men loyft,
First line:משיח, (4), װי מען גײט, װי מען שטײט, װי מען לױפֿט,
Title: S'fort A Yid Oyf A Shif -- ס'פֿאָרט אַ ייִד אױף אַ שיף
On album: R-024(a) (Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen A Montage/Documentary)
Track ID: 13143
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Narrator Willens, Rita Jacobs
First line: S'fort a yid oyf a shif, er fort, er fort, in vaytn land,
First line:ס'פֿאָרט אַ ייִד אױף אַ שיף, ער פֿאָרט, ער פֿאָרט, אין װײַטן לאַנד
Track comment: From Album S-03(a)
Title: S'fort A Yid Oyf A Shif -- ס'פֿאָרט אַ ייִד אױף אַ שיף
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 13144
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
First line: S'fort a yid oyf a shif, er fort, er fort in vaytn land,
First line:ס'פֿאָרט אַ ייִד אױף אַ שיף, ער פֿאָרט, ער פֿאָרט אין װײַטן לאַנד,
Title: Pasekh Shin Sha
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 12134
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
First line: Di yorn kumen on, mit pasekh, shin, sha,
First line:די יאָרן קומען אָן, מיט פּאַסעך שין, שאַ,
Title: Tevye Der Milkhiker (Excerpt) -- טבֿיה דער מילכיקער (אױסצוג)
On album: S-003(a) (Maurice Schwartz in Scenes and Episodes From Plays)
Track ID: 14940
Author Sholom Aleichem -- שלום עליכם
Composer Secunda, Sholom -- סעקונדאַ, שלום
Artist Schwartz, Risa and Menakhem -- שװאַרץ, ריסאַ און מנחם
Artist Mercur, Wolf -- מערקור, װאָלף
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
First line:Scene between Khava and Tevya upon expulsion from village
Track comment: Shabos scene-Tevya lamenting after Khava's apostasy.
Title: Vakh Lakh Lakis -- װאַך לאַך לאַקיס
On album: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID: 16204
Author Sholom Aleichem -- שלום עליכם
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Track comment: Progom scene - Teyve
Title: Shabos Shabos Koydesh -- שבּת שבּת קדוש
On album: K-010(g) (32 World Famous Artists Sing Oldies Of The Yiddish Theatre)
Track ID: 21188
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Narration Kressyn, Miriam -- קרעסן, מיריאַם
Narration Rechtzeit, Seymour -- רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line: Shabos (6), shabos koydesh...
First line:שבּת (6), שבּת קדוש...
Track comment: Nigun and dramatic recitation
Title: Baym Tilim -- בײַם תּהילים
Also known as: In Altn Beys-Hamedresh
Author: Kovner, B. -- קאָװנער, ב.
Composer: Rosen, Aaron -- ראָזען, אהרן
Genre: Literary Origin
Subject: Memory/Faith/Psalms/Grandfather/Tears
On album: 022k (Schwartz, Maurice/ In Altn Beysamedresh/)
Track ID: 29399
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish
Title: Teyve Der Milkhiker
On album: 039i (Schwartz, Maurice/ Teyve Der Milkhiker/)
Track ID: 29927
Artist: Schwartz, Maurice
Title: Moses' Morning After
Genre: Film/Nigun
On album: M-059(b) (Metropolitan Klezmer/ Surprising Finds)
Track ID: 32538
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Style: Nigun
Length: 0:19
Title: Tevye Starring Maurice Schwartz
Genre: Drama
Subject: Intermarriage/Shtetl/Family/Daughters/Parents
On album: V0007 (Tevye Starring Maurice Schwartz (Video))
Track ID: 33833
Producer Ziskin, Henry
Performer/Tevye/Screenplay/Director Schwartz, Maurice
Actor Riselle, Miriam
Actor Liebgold, Leon
Actor Weintraub, Rebecca
Music Secunda, Sholom -- סעקונדאַ, שלום
Language: Yiddish
Style: Drama
Length: 90:00
Title: From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video)
Genre: Documentary/Show Business
Subject: Immigration/Integration/Music/Acculturation/Music/Persona
On album: V0147 (From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video))
Track ID: 35728
Performer Brice, Fanny
Performer Calloway, Cab
Performer Cantor, Eddie
Performer Garland, Judy
Performer Jolson, Al
Performer Marx Brothers
Performer Picon, Molly -- פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Performer Schwartz, Maurice
Performer Tucker, Sophie
Performer Berlin, Irving
Narrator Fierstein, Harvey
Language: English
Style: Narrative/Performances/Spoken Word
Title: A Khazn Vos Hust -- אַ חזן װאָס הוסט
Also known as: Histendiker Khazn
Genre: Spoken Word/Sketch/Character Study/Monologue/Humorous
Subject: Khazn/Cough/Congregation
Additional song notes: Coughing Cantor
On album: M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)
Track ID: 35582
Vocal Schwartz, Maurice
Language: Yiddish
Style: Monolog/Spoken Word
Length: 3:18
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive
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