ELYE KANTOR (1889-June 3, 1960)
He moved
from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and lived in Córdoba, where he had a
laundry business. Although he was unable
to read music, he set several poems to melodies. He published Naye shul-gezangen (New school songs), music to poems by Yiddish poets
(Córdoba, 1936), 35 pp. He later
published several poems separately with their melodies—musical notation by
theater director Hendel Kumak. Some of
these poems were incorporated into the repertoires of Sidor Belarsky and other
singers. He died in Buenos Aires.
Sources: Sh. Rozhanski, Dos yidishe gedrukte vort in
argentine (The published Yiddish word in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1941), p.
170.
Berl Cohen
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