Zinovy Borukhovich Shulman ( October 28, 1904 , Odessa - 1977 , Moscow ) is a Jewish Soviet singer, known for performing popular Yiddish songs.
| Zinovy Borukhovich Shulman | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | April 28, 1904 |
| Place of Birth | Odessa , Kherson province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | 1976 |
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| A country |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Professions | singer |
| Years of activity | since 1922 |
| Singing voice | |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 Awards and recognition
- 4 References
Biography
Born in the family of the famous cantor Boruch Leib Shulman (1870-1963), great-grandson of the Jewish writer Kalman Shulman (1819-1899). After graduating from high school, he studied singing with V. Selyavin (artist of the Odessa Opera House ), then with D. Gorin (in Moscow).
He has performed since 1922 . In 1924 - the first tour of Ukraine as part of the brigade of the All-Union Professional Union of Art Workers (RABIS). In March 1925 he gave his first recital in Odessa, including Jewish songs and romances in the program.
In 1934 he graduated from the music and drama department of the State Institute of Theater Arts . In 1934-1935 he was a soloist at the Stanislavsky Moscow Opera Studio .
Since 1935, he devoted his life to collecting and performing Jewish songs, including in the programs also opera arias, which he performed in Yiddish . During the Great Patriotic War, he spoke at the front, in hospitals. In 1948 , Golda Meir , the Israeli ambassador to the USSR, attended his concert in Moscow.
In 1949 , after a concert in Kislovodsk, he was arrested. At a private court in Kiev on charges of Jewish nationalism, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was rehabilitated in 1956, returned to Moscow and resumed concert activity: participated in productions of the Moscow Jewish Drama Ensemble, performed Jewish folk songs.
In recent years, he was engaged in teaching, published the “Collection of Jewish songs from the repertoire of Zinovy Shulman” (M., 1973), the memoirs “Live, my song. Notes of the singer ”(Sovetish Geimland. - 1969; Friendship of Peoples. - 1969).
Family
- Brothers - Natan Borisovich Shulman (early pseudonym - Vladimir Donato; 1906-1983), Soviet pianist, composer and accompanist, chief accompanist of the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater; Mikhail Borukhovich Shulman (1908-1993), theater actor and administrator, before his arrest in 1937 - the first director of the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble named after A. Alexandrov.
- Sister - Simone Borukhovna Shulman (1910-1948) is a Soviet journalist, member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Evening Moscow".
- Children - Zhanna Zinovievna Markovskaya (Shulman); Leo Zinovievich Shulman-Prikhodko (1947)
Awards and recognition
- Laureate of the first All-Union Contest of Variety Artists (1939, Moscow).
- the title Prisoner of Zion (1997, Israel) - posthumously.
Links
- Shulman, family - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- Shulman, family . Famous Jews with Kalinkovichi roots: Celebrities with Kalinkovichi roots (February 24, 2012). Date of treatment February 25, 2012. Archived May 19, 2012.
- Schoolboy L. October 28 - Zinovy Shulman (neopr.) (Unavailable link) . We are here: Publications (October 27, 2011). Date of treatment February 25, 2012. Archived March 4, 2016.