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Joseph Schmidt (1904 – 1942)
Joseph Schmidt (March 4, 1904 – November 16, 1942) was a Romanian Jewish tenor and actor. He was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: Davydivka) village of Storozhynets district in the Bukovina province of Austria-Hungary, later Romania and now part of Ukraine. …



“I find something as immaterial as language, yet earthly, terrestrial, in the shape of a circle which, via both poles, rejoins itself and on the way serenely crosses even the tropics: I find… a meridian."