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Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Alter Yehiel Karniol
Alter Karniol was born in Dzialoszyce, a small province in Poland. He studied under…
Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in New York City in 1904.…
Edward Stark
Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor…