Emanuel Szlechter

Emanuel Szlechter

Polish-Jewish artist and writer

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Emanuel Schlechter was a Polish-Jewish artist, lyricist, screenwriter, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director, and occasional actor. He was one of the most influential creators of interwar Polish popular music in the 1930s, whose songs became deeply embedded in Polish language and culture. He was also the author of the famed "Tango of Death", according to Simon Weisenthal, the famed Janowska survivor, and who captured Adolf Eichmann

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