DOREL LIVIANU - Romania, Romania - Jewish Song, In concert New York 1985, piano David Livianu -

DOREL LIVIANU - Romania, Romania - Jewish Song, In concert New York 1985, piano David Livianu - Welcome! The Livianu Virtual Museum of Audio-Visual Recordings is proud to present to music lovers around the world some of the most beloved songs performed by one of Romania's greatest singers, Dorel Livianu.

Dorel Livianu was born in Bucharest, Romania, on October 10, 1907. He showed his high quality voice at a young age when he performed at age 7 in Verdi's opera AIDA, as the little trumpet boy.

As a teenager he studied voice with the great Massini at the Bucharest Music Conservatory. As a rising star he was signed on by Columbia Records and His Master's Voice.

He launched some of the greatest hits of the 1930s and 40s, such as "How Beautiful Life Is", "In The Little Town Forgotten By The World", "Johnny, Johnny", and many others.

Columbia Records labeled Livianu as The Golden Voice of Romania. Dorel Livianu covered most genres of Romanian pop music, from urban folklore, the tango, foxtrot and the Romanian blues known as romanta.




He performed with the Jewish Theater Barasheum in Bucharest between 1939 and 1945, when Jewish entertainers were banned from regular theaters. He was deported and interned in a Romanian-Nazy labor-concentration camp in Transnistria for 8 months, which he survided due to his notoriety.

Livianu also recorded many Jewish and American popular songs while residing in Israel and the United States. He was a frequent guest singer on popular New York radio shows like The Joey Adams Show, The Forward Hour on WEVD, and many others.

He is considered to have had one of the most beautiful pop voices of Romania. Dorel Livianu was married in 1939 to Mella Silberstein and had one child in 1955, David Bogdan.

In 1967 he took residence in America, commuting for performances between Romania and the U.S. He passed away on April 2, 1997. He is survived by a son and 2 grandchildren.

One of Livianu's most memorable slogans was "Love the Romanian blues and you will forever stay young". It was one of my father's last wishes to make his recordings available to the world, as an expression of his everlasting love for Romania, Israel and America.

If you would like quality copies of these recordings, you can write to david@livianu.com

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[Trevoc2]

Am avut odată un patrimoniu mare evreu român!

We Once had a great Romanian heritage. Thanks to communists, most Romanian Jews have left their heritage behind.

לשנה הבאה בירושלים

[Trevoc2]

Its fascinating how a nice little Jewish music will turn into a bigot's hangout to spew their hate at Jews. When the word "Jew" or "Jewish" is online, you can bet the anti-Jewish RATS will smell the cheese and come out and be known. Their one purpose in life is not culture or goodness, it is to defame and destroy people and their heritage.

You bigots can spoil the nicest of things with your hate. I hope you feel empowered and strong at being so hateful!!

[gaesti12]

My grandmother helped one jewish family during the war. they teach her how to cook and nevertheless how to be a decent person. 50 years later a jew helped us to leave the communist romania. you see hoe the history turns??!!!. god bless the romanian and jewish people brother for ever!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!

[gaesti12]

the communists may tried to kill us but we are still here and we laove each other!

[balak1]

nu cea mai buna versiune a cantecului.

[balak1]

@CristianMatteo Autorul cantecului a fost un evreu din spatiul imperiului rus. Asa ca "mare roman" poate fi cel mult Dorel Livianu.

[bogdanic29]

@CristianMatteo e pe idish cantecul .ce sa spuna ?numai de bine :-)

[CristianMatteo]

Nu inteleg evreieste, asa ca nu stiu ce spun cuvintele. Dar cred ca autorul lor e un MARE ROMAN!

[Joca1911]

Cada vez que ouço esta música lembro carinhosamente da minha avó fazendo salada de Brócolis

[Trevoc2]

@DerLiedmeister Yes, Romanian Jews were killed by Nazis and many fled. The question is, why have they not returned to Romania??? I did a search recently on an official Romanian web page which shows many pictures and history of Romania, but NOWHERE is there even one mention of the former Jews that lived there or what happened to them. It is my feeling that present day free Romania cares less about their Jewish Romanian brethren because they were not thought about them and forgot about them.

[DerLiedmeister]

@Trevoc2 Well, I would think it would have to do more with the overwhelming majority of Romanian Jews being killed by the Nazis. By the time the Communists got to us there were barely any of us left.