{"id":2028,"date":"2020-06-19T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T12:48:54","slug":"moisheoyshersheyibone-beit-hamikdash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/musicbeforeshabbat\/moisheoyshersheyibone-beit-hamikdash\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS with a super star of the Yiddish films from the 30s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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19th June 2020 – Shabbat is almost here<\/strong><\/h3>\n

And in this occasion we will enjoy the voice of one of the best singers of the History: Moishe Oysher, spellbinding both in popular music and in liturgical singing.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I hope you are well!\u00a0I learnt about this artist when I started to search for cantors\u00a0and I come back to listen him again and again: he is Moishe Oysher.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While searching for facts about his bio, I realiced that I consider Moishe Oysher as a star but that his niece Marilyn Michaels may be even\u00a0more famous. The Oyshers came from a family of at least six generations of cantors. Apart of Moishe and his niece Marilyn,\u00a0his syster Fraydele, Marilyn’s mother, was also a recognized singer.\u00a0You can listen the ladies\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Poignant cantor, Yiddish cinema star and ‘Kosher heart throb’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Moustache is often a good idea. With this outfit, that defiant gaze and that outstandingly passionated way of singing, I can understand why Moishe became popular.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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\u00b7 At the bottom you’ll find the video with his voice \u00b7<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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This picture is from the film\u00a0Der Zingendiker Shmid<\/em>\u00a0(The Singing Blacksmith), directed by\u00a0Edgar G. Ulmer<\/a>, based on the play\u00a0Yankl der Shmid<\/a>, by\u00a0David Pinski<\/a>. Find here a\u00a0very interesting documentary<\/a>\u00a0about the film.<\/div>\n
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Moishe was born in Lipcani in 1907, that nowadays is in Moldava. But at the time of his birth, Lipcani was part of Khotin district of Bessarabia guberniya of Russian Empire. With the birth of the state of Moldava, the river Prut that bathes the city would be the natural border with Romania. The border with Ukraine would be also very near, few kilometres to the North.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Today,\u00a0Google Maps shows in Lipcani<\/a>\u00a0the place of the church of the Seventh-day Adventists and also of the Jehova Witnesses. The pressence of Jewish is kept thanks to the\u00a0thrilling project<\/a>\u00a0of repair and documentation of the Jewish cemetery, started in 2013. Before the II World War, many of the inhabitants of the city were Jews. In 1941, they were deported to\u00a0Brichany<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Transnistria<\/a>. Clic the picture if you are interested in a documentary about Lipcani with testimonies of survivors.\u00a0In 1952, the Lipcani quarter would be buildt in the city of Ramat Gan, at the East of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

But the young Moishe wouldn’t have to experience the terror. His destiny was another. From a very young age, he was captivated by the magic of the stage and started acting in theatre as soon as possible. In 1921, a 15 years old Moishe\u00a0travelled to Canada to join his father, who emigrated to America when he was a kid. He was left in Lipcani, where he would get the spell of the music from both of his grandfathers.<\/p>\n

Once in Canada, he joined the Actors’ Union in 1924 and started to work. The following years, he would move to USA, he would marry Florence Weiss, who would be co-starring some films with him (watch them singing together,\u00a0here<\/a>), he travelled to Latin America with his own company and, after his return in 1932, all the shows at the theatres had already done the castings. He was finding no job… but the time of the High Holidays was coming: he was luckily hired as chazan for the High Holidays at the First Roumanian-American congregation. His style keeping the prayers of Bessarabia, would enchant the public, as he does nowadays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And what about the song?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

There are many recordings by Moishe Oysher available. I selected this one of a cantorial melody that talks about the reconstruction of the Temple. It was\u00a0composed by another chazan,\u00a0Israel Schorr<\/a>, born in 1886 in the Polish Galitzia, about who I will talk longer in a future MBS issue.<\/p>\n

Oysher’s rendition of\u00a0Sheyibaneh Bet Hamikdash<\/em>\u00a0is a 6 minutes joy of dynamic development in which his voice and creativity\u00a0scale\u00a0the greatest heights of artistry. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Clic the picture to listen Sheyibone Beit Hamikdash<\/em>\u00a0by Moishe Oysher:<\/strong><\/p>\n