Jalda Rebling

Actor, Person

1951 –

50

Who is Jalda Rebling?

Jalda Rebling is a notable hazzan, also called cantor. She and her parents moved to East Germany in 1952. Her parents survived the Holocaust, and Rebling's mother and aunt were the first to tell Otto Frank of his daughters' deaths. Her mother Rebekka Brilleslijper, also known as Lin Jaldati, was a well-known singer of Yiddish music. In 1987 Rebling helped organize a Yiddish culture festival in Germany, which occurred every year into the 1990s. Rebling herself eventually became one of the best known Yiddish singers in united postwar Germany. She also acted in Yiddish at the Hackischer Hoftheater.

In 1979 the Anne Frank Kindergarten in Berlin had Rebling and her mother perform for the fiftieth anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth; the production was shown on GDR TV and sold as a record, and it became the family’s signature production on tour. They performed it at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and Rebling noted that while “we sang in Yiddish, there was also a German song by Paul Dessau. In fact, we brought the first two pieces of German-language music into Yad Vashem.”

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Born
1951
Amsterdam
Nationality
  • Germany
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on July 23, 2013

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