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Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Emanuel Aguilar
Emanuel Aguilar, brother of author Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He…
Samuel Alman
Samuel Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk, Ukraine, and was first exposed to the…
Marc Lavry
Marc Lavry was born in Riga, Latvia and received his formal musical education at the…
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Myer Leoni
Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England. In 1767 he took a…