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Werdyger Family
Werdyger, Werdiger, and Verdiger is a surname from the Polish word ''weredyk'', meaning "truthful person". People with this surname include: *David Werdyger (born c. 1920), Polish-American hazzan *Mendy Werdyger Mendy Werdyger (born 1959,) is an American Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic singer, songwriter, and owner of the Jewish record label Aderet ecordsMusic Corp. and its retail store Mostly Music in Brooklyn. In 2010, he released his fifth studio album. ... (born 1959), American Jewish singer and owner of Aderet Music/Mostly Music in Brooklyn, New York * Mordechai Werdyger (born 1951), American Jewish singer known as Mordechai Ben David References {{surname, Werdyger, yi, ווערדיגער ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Werdyger
David Werdyger ( he, אלתר דוד יצחק ורדיגר; 30 October 1919 – 2 April 2014) was a Polish-American Hasidic hazzan and solo singer. A Holocaust survivor who was incarcerated in several Nazi concentration camps, including the factory run by Oskar Schindler, Werdyger moved to Brooklyn, New York, after World War II and began recording albums featuring the music of the Bobov, Boyan, Skulen, Melitz, Radomsk, and Ger Hasidic dynasties, recording 60 albums in all. He also established the Jewish record label Aderet Records, now managed and owned by his son Mendy Werdyger. He was the father of singer Mordechai Ben David and the grandfather of singer Yeedle Werdyger (Mordechai's son). Werdyger collaborated with Velvel Pasternak, among others, in his recordings. Early life Werdyger was the youngest of four sons and four daughters born to Yisrael Aryeh Werdyger, a well-to-do wholesaler of men's shirts and dry goods and a prominent member of the Gerrer Hasidic communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendy Werdyger
Mendy Werdyger (born 1959,) is an American Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic singer, songwriter, and owner of the Jewish record label Aderet [Records] Music Corp. and its retail store Mostly Music in Brooklyn. In 2010, he released his fifth studio album. Biography Werdyger grew up in Brooklyn, attending yeshivas from grade school through kollel. At age 21, he joined his father's business, Aderet Records. Mendy sang in the choirs on recordings made by his father, David Werdyger and on some of brother Mordechai Ben David's albums as well as those of Avraham Fried, Dov Levine, Yerachmiel Begun, and others. Since 1991, he has been the cantor for the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayer services at a Ger (Hasidic dynasty), Gerrer shtiebel in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Boro Park, Brooklyn. Werdyger has re-mastered four CDs using computer software to clear up the distortions on the original records. Family Werdyger is a son of the hazzan (cantor) David Werdyger, brother of singer Mordechai Ben David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |