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Velvel Pasternak
… Jewish immigrants from Poland. He lived most of his life in New York City, where he dedicated his efforts to recording and … key role in preserving Hassidic melodies. He passed away in New York City on June 12, 2019, at the age of 86, after …
Tamar de Sola Pool
… Eva (Cohen) Hirschenson. The family moved to New Jersey in 1904, but retained its Zionist spirit, … at Hunter from 1914 to 1917. She served as president of the New York chapter of Hadassah from 1929 to 1935 and national …
Alexander L. Ringer
… concentration camp. After the war, Ringer emigrated to New York City in 1947. There he received a M.A. in Sociology and psychology in 1948 from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. of Musicology in …
Morris Rosenfeld
… a diamond cutter and in London as a tailor, he emigrated to New York in 1886, where he would also work as a tailor. … with the editorial staff of several leading Jewish newspapers. In 1904 he started publishing a weekly entitled …
Walter Salmen
… of Illinois in Urbana Champaign, the City University of New York, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the Bar …
Jakob Schönberg
… Composer and music theorist active in Germany, England and New York. Author of Shire Erets Yisrael (1935), an important …
Milan Slavicky
… (2001). He was a visiting professor at the University of New York in Prague. In his field of musicology, he focused …
Avraham Soltes
… Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently arrived from Eastern … Mordechai Soltes had earned a Ph.D. in education, from New York University in 1916, barely after mastering this …
Moshe Taube
… immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, and officiated as cantor in New York and later in Pittsburg. Taube developed a unique style …
Samuel Vigoda
… to the US, where he continued in cantorial offices in New York (taking Rosenblatt's position at the Oheb Zedek …