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Harry Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer (originally Gumm or Gummblinksy), was born in Detroit in 1872. His…
Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City to parents Fanny and Henry…
Jennie Goldstein
Yiddish theater star Jennie Goldstein was born in New York in 1896. She began acting…
Joel Walbe
Joel Walbe was born in Shepetovka, Volhynia (today Ukraine). As a boy, his education was…
Paul Ben-Haim
Paul Ben-Haim (Munich, 1897- Tel-Aviv, 1984, emigrated to Palestine in 1933) was the…
Reuben Rinder
Born in Tarnów, Galicia (today’s Poland), in 1887, Reuben Rinder studied at the local…
Haim Effendi
In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime…
Eliakum Zunser
Eastern European poet and singer. He is known for his songs that preached nationalism…
Haim (Heinz) Alexander
Haim Alexander (b. Berlin, 1915, immigrated in 1936, lives in Jerusalem), like Ehrlich,…
Tzvi Avni
Tzvi Avni (b.1927, Saarbrücken, immigrated in 1935, lives in Tel-Aviv). A 2001 Israel…