Shalom Postolski is a composer. He was born in 1893 in the town of Sedlec (the Kingdom of Poland of the Russian Empire, now Poland) in the family of Gur Khasid. In 1901 the family moved to the suburb of Warsaw Radzymin.
From his childhood he composed music for various texts, including religious content. The father, a lover of music, encouraged his son’s enthusiasm. But his money was enough only to pay for the year of Shalom’s education at the Warsaw Conservatoire.
Since 1909 he lived in Warsaw, earning money in local Yiddish newspapers. He was a member of the Ha-Halutz movement.
In 1920 he immigrated to Palestine. At first he worked in the settlement of Atarot, then in the settlement of Menahemia. Joined the “Workers’ Battalion named after Joseph Trumpeldor”, participated in the founding of the kibbutz Ein Harod, in which he worked as an agricultural worker.
In 1926 he began to write songs on the poems of Israeli poets. His work was noted by Shlomo Rozovsky. In 1933 he took a two-year vacation to study music theory in Tel Aviv under the leadership of Erich Walter Sternberg.
On his return to Ein Harod was forced again to work in agriculture. In 1940, because of the turmoil between members of his family and members of the kibbutz, he moved to the settlement of Beit Yitzhak, in which Shalom Postolsky died at the age of 56 after nine years of musical and social isolation.
10 thoughts on “Kaminos”
Was Nicholas related to Alexander Saslavsky who married Celeste Izolee Todd?
Anyone have a contact email for Yair Klinger or link to score for Ha-Bayta?
wish to have homeland concert video played on the big screen throughout North America.
can organize here in Santa Barbara California.
contacts for this needed and any ideas or suggestions welcomed.
Nat farber is my great grandpa ๐
Are there any movies or photos of max kletter? His wifeโs sister was my stepmother, so Iโm interested in seeing them and sharing them with his wifeโs daughter.
The article says Sheb recorded his last song just 4 days before he died, but does not tell us the name of it. I be curious what it was. Iโd like to hear it.
Would anyone happen to know where I can find a copy of the sheet music for a Gil Aldema Choral (SATB) arrangement for Naomi Shemerโs โSheleg Al Iriโ. (Snow on my Village)?
Joseph Smith
Kol Ram Community Choir, NYC
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(Maurice King)
Thank you for this wonderful remembrance of Herman Zalis. My late father, Henry Wahrman, was one of his students. Note the correct spelling of his name for future reference. Thank you again for sharing this.
Tirza Wahrman (Mitlak)
amazing zchuso yagein aleinu, he wrote the famous niggun Lefichuch that is sung in almost every Israeli Yeshiva