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Amnon Netzer
Amnon Netzer was an Iranian-born Israeli historian, researcher…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Gershom Sizomu
Gershom Sizomu is an Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Jo Amar
In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He combined ‘paytanut’ and poetry…
Berele Chagy
Born in Dagdo, Russia. Officiated as cantor in Russia, the U.S. and South Africa. …
Pnina Salzman
“The first lady of the piano in Israel,' and, 'She is considered the first Israel-born…
Bacon Family
Hirsch Leib (1875-1928) Cantor and composer Born in Kolbuszow, Poland.…
Joseph Papernikoff
Joseph Papernikoff was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of…
Simha Arom
A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of…