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Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in New York City in 1904.…
Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker was born in New York, U.S.A. In addition to his work as Hazzan, he was a…
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
Born in Shatsk (today Ukraine). Officiated as cantor in Vilna for thirty years (1893-…
Edward Stark
Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor…
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Joel Rubin
Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and…
Lazare Saminsky
Lazare Saminsky was born in Vale-Gotzulovo[-Hatzulovo], Ukraine. He studied composition…