Source:
The Specter of Fritz Weiss
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data-original-title="" title="">Shai Brenner, he was entertaining kibbutz members in a bomb shell while Israel was fighting a war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. This time, Shai is reviving the ghost of a jazz musician murdered by Nazis in an extermination camp.
On September 28, Shai performed a tribute to Fritz Weiss. Weiss was a bandleader and composer born on the aforementioned date in 1919 in the country formally known as Czechoslovakia. On this date in 1944, the “Ghetto Swingers" or the Jazz orchestra of the Theresienstadt concentration camp were sent to a death camp at Auschwitz. There, on his twenty-fifth birthday, he succumbed to death in a gas chamber.
Almost 70 years later,
On September 28, Shai performed a tribute to Fritz Weiss. Weiss was a bandleader and composer born on the aforementioned date in 1919 in the country formally known as Czechoslovakia. On this date in 1944, the “Ghetto Swingers" or the Jazz orchestra of the Theresienstadt concentration camp were sent to a death camp at Auschwitz. There, on his twenty-fifth birthday, he succumbed to death in a gas chamber.
Almost 70 years later,
Shai Brenner
saxophone, soprano
Shai Brenner said, “[the] state of Israel should recognize jazz as the national music national which has deep ties to and shares many values with the Jewish people. Jazz is our music" exclaimed Brenner in a press statement.
Brenner and his ensemble debuted the music on September 28 at the Felicia Blumenthal Music Center on Bialik Street in Tel Aviv.
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