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Sharing with you life stories of composers, performers and scholars of Jewish music.

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Joseph Singer

Cantor

1841-1911

Gershon Sirota

Gershon Sirota

Cantor

1874-1943

Gershom Sizomu

Gershom Sizomu

Ugandan Jewry's spiritual leader

1972-

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Ephraim Skliar

Composer and choral director

1871-1943?

Pavel Slavensky

Pavel Slavensky

Cantor and Composer

1909-1999

Milan Slavicky

Milan Slavicky

Composer, musicologist, and pedagogue

1947 - 2009

Avraham Slep

Avraham Slep

Conductor & music educator

1884-1942

Michal Smoira-Cohn

Michal Smoira-Cohn

Israeli Musicologist

1926-2015

Solomon Smulewitz

Solomon Smulewitz

Songwriter, lyricist, actor & recording singer

1868-1943

Mordechai Sobol

Mordechai Sobol

Cantor and composer

1951-2018

Pete Sokolow

Pete Sokolow

A jazz and klezmer pianist

1940-

David Aaron de Sola

David Aaron de Sola

Rabbi and Author

1796-1860

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