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Platon Brounoff
… settled in New York. Founded and conducted the Poale Tsion Choir, the first Jewish secular choir in America. Collected over 300 Jewish folk songs, some of which he arranged for his choir. Composed Yiddish songs (see 'Song of the month,' …
Moshe Nathanson
… where Abraham Z. Idelsohn was the director of the choir. Sheldon Feinberg, in his book “A Song Without Words” … Many of the songs aired on the program were performed by a choir directed by Meyer Machtenberg. “Voice of Jerusalem” …
Bertha Kalish
… ca. 1872. She began her stage career as a member of the choir at the Polish Theater. By the age of seventeen, …
Joel Walbe
… as a music educator. He taught and organized orchestras and choirs in various schools, such as: Echad Ha'am, Hashachar, …
Paul Ben-Haim
… the one chosen for official celebrations), Roni Akara (choir, 1957), Hamavdil (voice and piano, 1957), and Bein …
Salcia Weinberg
… , and Zwiebel-Goldstein , she too began her career in the choir of the Polish Theater in Lemberg, later switching to …
Nissan Spivak
… sources agree on his Lithuanian origin. Spivak sang in the choir of Yeruham Blindman in Berdichev. Later, he … led him to develop original synagogue music in which the choir, instead of being merely an accompaniment or used for … role of the cantor. Spivak had many pupils who sang in his choir in Berdichev, such as Pinhas Minkowski and Jacob …
Haim Effendi
… of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim used to perform its ancient …
Jacob Bachman
… a Yeshiva. He began his music studies in Moshe Pasternak’s choir at the local synagogue. When he was eighteen, Bachmann …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… career at a young age; he began by singing in the synagogue choir of the local cantor Leizerke, as well as by studying … general music theory, but continued to sing in a Jewish choir. In Lodz, Birnbaum studied to become a shohet … and officiated as cantor in Przasnysz and established a choir. During this time, he continued his job as shohet, a …