Jack Skurnick [SEP] date of death
Jack Skurnick
Jack Skurnick (March 1910 – September 1952) was the founder and director of EMS Recordings and publisher and editor of the highly regarded music review, "Just Records".
Career.
Skurnick worked in a music store on West 44th Street near Madison Avenue in New York; the store was owned by his parents, Max and Anna Skurnick. The Elaine Music Shop had many loyal customers. Doris Day bought records there, and many of the great classical musicians came in to make purchases and chat with
. Dassin grew up in Harlem and went to Morris High School in the Bronx. During his youth he attended Camp Kinderland, the left-wing Yiddish youth camp. He joined the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and left it after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. He started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF ("Yiddish Proletarian Theater") company in New York. He collaborated on a film with Jack Skurnick that was incomplete because of Skurnick's early death.
Biography Career.
Dassin quickly became better