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Michal Smoira-Cohn
Born in Tel Aviv, Michal Smoira-Cohn studied at the Palestine Academy of Music (…
Avraham Soltes
Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Gil Aldema
Gil Aldema was born in the Borokhov neighborhood (today Giv'atayim), Israel. As a child…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Jacob Beimel
Born in Parichi, Belarus. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1915. Worked as cantor and conductor…
Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in New York City in 1904.…
Leibele Waldman
Cantor. Born in New York, USA. Officiated as cantor in Boston, Passaic, and New…