Jozef Fischer
Date: 2024-05-30 |
Tags: Chomsk
Jozef Fischer was born in 1840 in Chomsk in a Jewish family.
It is not known exactly when his family moved to Krakow. In adulthood he became the owner of a printing house, was a singer and a money-changer. For many years he served as chancellor at the Reform Templum synagogue in Krakow on Med Street. He also taught singing. He died in 1914 in Krakow.
Bibliography
- Balaban M. History of the Jews in Kraków and Kazimierz 1304-1868, vol. 2: 1656-1868, Kraków, 1936.
- Duda E. Kraków Jews, Kraków [1999].
- Max Hesse's deutscher Musiker-Kalender für das Jahr 1879-1922.
- Stengel T., Gehrigk H. Lexikon der Juden in der Musik, Berlin, 1986.
References and information used in the article
- L.T. Blaszczyk, “Jews in Musical Culture Active in the Polish Lands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (book published with support from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland).
- https://sztetl.org.pl/