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Arno Nadel

… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in …

… position as hazzan of the Great Synagogue of Vilnus (Lithuania) at the young age of 25. During World War I, … the cantor of the prestigious Great Synagogue of Vilnius (Lithuania), a significant accomplishment for a man of 25. …

Shmerke Kaczerginski

… known as Ponar ), written in response to the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews in Ponary near Vilna. Full biographies: ' …

Avraham Slep

… Choir), which soon became the musical symbol of the 'Lithuanian Jerusalem'. Slep also took part in the …

Leon Blank

… Leon Blank was born in Lithuania in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family …

Aaron Lebedeff

… career on stage. He was nicknamed “Litvak Komiker,” (the Lithuanian Yiddish comic) both for his stage manner, and for … and romanticized the provincial villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness …

Lucy Levin

… Lucy Levin was born on July 1906 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania. In 1908 she came with her parents to America. She …

Nissan Spivak

… His birth place is uncertain, but most sources agree on his Lithuanian origin. Spivak sang in the choir of Yeruham …

Eliakum Zunser

… probably derived from Zunse (a small village near Vilna, Lithuania), where his ancestors lived prior to moving to … badhan . From 1860 to 1870 his fame grew rapidly throughout Lithuania and in northern Russia, and he became the …