Background

He was born in a small village, Kozhan Gorodok, Belarus, and raised in a nearby village, Davyd-Haradok, Belarus (then Poland). Ehrlich was born to a family of Karlin-Stoliner Hasidim.

Career

He survived the Holocaust in, Soviet Union. Later, he moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New New York Ehrlich himself was a Hasid of the late Rabbi Yochanan Perlow of Karlin.

Interests

• Music & Bands

  Some of Ehrlich"s favorite songs were later recorded by other popular Hasidic entertainers, such as Mordechai Ben David, Lipa Shmeltzer and Avraham Fried, although Ehrlich himself used Russian classical and folk melodies to his own Yiddish lyrics.