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Ben-Zion Witler
Ben-Zion Witler (1907–1961), also Ben-Tsion Vitler, BenZion Wittler, was a Jewish singer, actor, coupletist, comedian and composer. Early life At the age of six Witler moved with his family from Belz, Galisia, to Vienna, where he received a strict Chasidic religious upbringing. Career In 1919, at the age of 12, he joined the ''Freie jüdische Volksbühne'' theater in Vienna (1919–1922; no connection to the New York Folksbiene), secretly and under an alias, fearing his family's reaction. He worked briefly as a journalist at the German Zionist weekly ''Wiener Morgenzeitung'' (''Vienna Morning Times''), but in 1926 returned to the Vienna theater scene, performing in comedies and operettas, studying opera repertoire with Yulianovsky and Fuchs, touring (Paris, London, South Africa, France and Vienna). Witler spent three years in Poland in the mid-1930s, becoming a "public darling.Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater (Volume 3), p. 2260-2261" In 1937 he appeared in Riga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belz
Belz ( uk, Белз; pl, Bełz; yi, בעלז ') is a small city in Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, located between the Solokiya river (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream. Belz hosts the administration of Belz urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately . Origin of name There are a few theories as to the origin of the name: * Celtic languages, Celtic – ''belz'' (water) or ''pelz'' (stream), * German language, German – ' (fur, furry) * Old Slavic language, Old Slavic and the Boykos, Boyko language – «белз» or «бевз» (muddy place), * Old East Slavic – «бълизь» (white place, a glade in the midst of dark woods). The name occurs only in two other places, the first being a Celtic area in antiquity, and the second one being derived from its Romanian name: * ''Belz, Morbihan, Belz'' (department Morbihan), Brittany, France * ''Bălți'' (/''Beljcy'', also known in Yiddish as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
