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D. was born on 28
October1905 in Lodz, Poland. Her father was a tailor.
She learned in a folksshul, also privately. She
sung in a "Hazamir" chorus, which was under the
leadership of Zanvil Zilbert, later studying music
with Theodor Rider and Ilnitski.
Her stage career began with
"amateurs" in 1923-24 in German operettas. In 1924 she
sang in the role of "Michaela" in the opera, "Carmen."
After that she traveled to Germany and studied with
Professor ....shild, and in 1925-26 she studied in the
Berlin Comedy Opera (direction by James Klein.)
She returned to Poland, and
for the 1926-27 season she went over to the Yiddish
stage, at first in "Azazel," then in the "Vilna Troupe"
during their playing in Lemberg. Later she played in a
Yiddish operetta theatre in Lodz (director Kompaneyets),
Paris (Kompaneyets), London (Blumental), South Africa (Kompanyets),
guest-starring together with Isidor Bizet in London,
Antwerp and Brisl. In 1933 she played with Sandler in
the "Pavilion" Theatre in Warsaw, then with Pesach'ke
Burstein.
Jonas Turkow describes it:
"When the last (Second
World) war broke out, Joseph Kamien, together with his
last wife, the songstress Nadia Kareni, fled to
Bialystok. There in the year in the year 1940 he became
ill. ...after [his] health..., he had, together with his
the great singer and Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky, as well
as with his wife Nadia |