Zakochany księżyc (The Moon In Love) Tango (J.Kagan-Z.Friedwald ) - A.Harris,Odeon Orch 1937

NOTE: Author of music is Jakub Kagan - to read more about his great success in prewar Poland, and his tragic end under the nazis, go to: [ Ссылка ]

Author of text is Zenon FRIEDWALD (born 1906 in Lwów, Poland) - a songwiriter, whose greatest hit was an immortal tango, composerd in 1936 by Jerzy Petersburski: in the tango history, it became one of the most famous tangos, ever: "To ostatnia niedziela" (The Last Sunday)
When, on 1st of September 1939 German apocalypse started to blow off Poland, Friedwald - who was a worker in the bureau of Polish Ministry Of Military Affairs - was evacuated to Romania and farther, via Grece and Turkey, to Palestine. After 1945, as writer and social activist, he became one of key figures in post-war Polish-Jewish circles in Israel. He died in Tel Aviv, in 1976.

Albert HARRIS (Aaron Hekelman) was born in Warsaw 1911, died in 1974 , USA he was a Polish pianist, composer, singer. In 1930s he was contracted as a refrain singer to Odeon Records, Warsaw. Most often, „Odeon" studio orchestra in Warsaw was conducted by Jerzy Gert, who was Odeon's music director and until September 1939.with him most of Harris' recordings were made. After Second World War, Albert Harris emigrated to Sweden, where he composed music for the movies.

The slideshow are the vintage photographs of the Polish city of Wilno, now Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The photoes have been made by the nestor of Polish photo-art., Jan Bułhak (born 1876 in Ostaszyn by Nowogródek, d. 1950 in Giżycko, Poland). His photos of Wilno, Warsaw, Lublin or Cracow, taken in 1910-1930 can only be compared with the immortal works of art by Kertesz or Brassai.

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