Nachum Shternheim
Nachum Shternheim or Nochem Sternheim was Jewish poet, composer, and songwriter who wrote in Yiddish.
Biography
Nachum Sternheim was born in Rzeszów, Austrian partition of Poland. to the family of Jehaj Natan Sternheim and Chaja Bilder. Some sources claim the family was Hasidic, but there is no evidence that he was raised in Hasidic tradition. He became a Zionist and was an activist of Poale Zion in Rzeszów. In 1908 he moved to the United States and worked at a factory in New York. After some time he moved to the West Coast and started writing as a musician and composer in the emerging film industry. For unknown reasons, in 1912 he returned to Rzeszów. Upon return lectured on Jewish national poetry, wrote songs and performed in Jewish communities of Galicia. His first songs were published in the Wachenblatt newspaper, later by Goldberg printing house, Rzeszów.The circumstances and even year of his death is uncertain: 1942 or 1943.
Gila Flam and Dov Noy published a collection of Shternheim's works, Hobn Mir a Nigndl. The song of the Yiddish „Troubadour” Nokhem Shternheim, which includes a short biographical notice.
Known songs
- Onzer Nigundel ; for a long time considered to be a folk song.
- Friday Night. It may be heard on the 1993 album Ałef-Bejs by Sława Przybylska
- Gila Flam found that Shternheim published two songs, "Dos Redl" and "Di Parodye Zum Redl", to the same tune as Papirosn.
- "Malkele" or "Tayere Malkele"
- "Legionen Marsch"
Family