Sholom Secunda

Prince of the Young Hazzanim

"Prince of the Young Hazzanim": Playbill advertising a cantorial performance by Sholom Secunda. The composer was famous as a young cantor before becoming one of Second Avenue's "big four" composers.

Sholom Secunda (bottom, fifth from left) and the cast of Senorita by Louis Freiman at the Rolland Theater in Brooklyn, New York, 1928. Secunda served as the theater's musical director on more than one occasion.

Credit: Courtesy of the Secunda Estate, and the Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University

Sholom Secunda

Sholom Secunda conducts from the piano at New York's Yiddish Art Theatre, 1938-39 season.

Credit: Courtesy of the Secunda Estate, and the Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University

Sholom Secunda

Sholom Secunda. Although Secunda claimed to have concluded his Second Avenue career after The Kosher Widow in 1959, he was still writing for Yiddish shows well into the 1960s.

Credit: Sheldon Secunda | Courtesy of Sheldon Secunda

Sholom Secunda with the Andrews Sisters

Sholom Secunda poses with the Andrews Sisters, one of the many groups who helped make Bay mir bistu sheyn Yiddish theater's most popular song. Bay mir bistu sheyn won the ASCAP award for the most popular song in 1938.

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Sholom Secunda

Articles (3)

Summer Stock Part Two: Sholom Secunda and the Bay mir bistu shame

Introduction to Volume 16

Introduction to Volume 13

Radio Programs and Podcasts (1)

Episode 4: Yiddish Theater

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Prince of the Young Hazzanim

Prince of the Young Hazzanim

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Senorita

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Sholom Secunda with the Andrews Sisters

Sholom Secunda with the Andrews Sisters

Videos (8)

Great Songs of the Yiddish American Theater

Bay mir bistu sheyn (To Me You Are Beautiful)

Bay mir bistu sheyn (To Me You Are Beautiful)–Live

Mayn yidishe meydle (My Jewish Girl)

The yidishe meydele

Forget it Charlie!

Secunda or Rumshinsky?

The Real Story of Bay mir bistu sheyn

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The Art of Jewish Song

Yiddish and Hebrew

Great Songs of the American Yiddish Stage

Yiddish Theater, Vaudeville, Radio, and Film

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