# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-werdyger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:46.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-werdyger"
name: "David Werdyger"
slug: "david-werdyger"
description: "David Werdyger was a Polish-American Hasidic hazzan and solo singer. A Holocaust survivor who was incarcerated in several Nazi concentration camps, including the factory run by Oskar Schindler, Werdyger moved to Brooklyn, New York, after World War II and began recording albums featuring the music of the Bobov, Boyan, Skulen, Melitz, Radomsk, and Ger Hasidic dynasties, recording 60 albums in all. He also established the Jewish record label Aderet Records, now managed and owned by his son Mendy Werdyger."
tagline: "Hazzan, solo singer, travel agent (1919-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-10-30"
deathDate: "2014-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.277502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Werdyger"
    title: "David Werdyger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "ديفيد ويرديجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Werdyger"
    title: "David Werdyger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ea1aa16e-b9bc-4da0-9722-3e22ad9257d3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A8"
    title: "דוד ורדיגר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A2%D7%A8"
    title: "דוד ווערדיגער"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5240971"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations