David Werdyger was a Polish-American Hasidic hazzan and solo singer.
17 Facts About David Werdyger
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David Werdyger established the Jewish record label Aderet Records, now managed and owned by his son Mendy Werdyger.
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David Werdyger was the father of singer Mordechai Ben David and the grandfather of singer Yeedle Werdyger.
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David Werdyger collaborated with Velvel Pasternak, among others, in his recordings.
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David Werdyger says that at the age of six he became the soloist in the choir of the Eizik Yeikeles Synagogue in Krakow, and that at age 12 he was invited by Yankel Talmud, the leader of the Gerrer choir, to be a soloist in that choir in the town of Ger.
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Each man passed before German Nazi camp commandant Amon Goth; David Werdyger later said that when it was his turn, Goth asked him what type of work he did.
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David Werdyger spent time in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and the Linz labor camp, where he was liberated on Saturday, 5 May 1945.
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In New York David Werdyger worked as a hazzan in the Warshever Shul, then the Chasam Sofer Shul on the Lower East Side, then New Lots Talmud Torah Shul.
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David Werdyger opened a travel agency, Werdyger Travel, in Brooklyn.
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Later, Werdyger moved to the Rabbi Meir Simcha Hakohein Shul in East Flatbush, headed by Chabad, Jacob J Hecht, who had Werdyger sing cantorial selections on his weekly radio program, Shema Yisrael.
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David Werdyger later started his own recording label, Aderet Records, to record Hasidic niggunim.
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David Werdyger released Songs of the Gerer Chassidim Loi Sevoishi in 1962.
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Subsequently, David Werdyger recorded the niggunim of the Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal, on Skulaner Chassidic Nigunim Vol.
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David Werdyger made concert appearances in the United States, Canada, and England, in which he sang both cantorial and Hasidic melodies.
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David Werdyger produced an album for the Boyaner Hasidim on which he and his son Mordechai sang together, accompanied by the Boyaner's men's choir.
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In 1993 David Werdyger published his autobiography, Songs of Hope, as part of the Holocaust Diaries series published by CIS Publishers.
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David Werdyger died on 2 April 2014 at the age of 94.