Cantor Samuel Baruch Taube Z"L - Kadosh Ato (Concert Chazzonim Choir 1955)

Concert Chazzonim Choir 1955 Under the direction of Rev. Leo Bryll Accompanist Mr. Sidney Bright Cantor Samuel B. Taube was born in Zelov Poland from a chassidic family. His outstanding lyric-dramatic tenor voice, his extraordinary musicality as well as his unusual ability to read music at first sight, soon made him to be regarded by his teachers as an excellent musician and a young cantor of great promise. His first position was at the Motefoire Synagogue in Vienna. From there he went to Paris, France to accept a position as cantor of the Synagogue de la Rue Montevideo. Here he remained until 1943, when the Nazis YMSHV"Z arrested and deported him to Auschwitz. He managed to survive it truly by the grace of G-D, who endowed him with a powerful voice and musical abilities, and was able to sing(practically every day for 18 months) "lieder" and operatic arias in several languages, through which his life was spared by his tormentors and he was liberated in 1945. In 1949 he accepted an invitation to succeed Cantor Jacob Kussevitzky in the Dalstor Synagogue in London. and in 1951 was called upon to succeed David Kussevitzky at the Hendon Synagogue. In 1958 he accepted a position in Beth Sholom congregation in Washington D.C.