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Walter Salmen

… by the Universities of Illinois in Urbana Champaign, the City University of New York, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the Bar …

Avraham Soltes

… Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. …

Albert Weisser

… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in …

Elias Zaludkowski

… in 1926 went to the U.S. where he officiated as Hazzan in New York and Detroit . He wrote a collection of biographies of …

Alois Kaiser

… was cantor at the Neusynagoge at Prague. Kaiser arrived in New York city in June, 1866, and in the following month was appointed …

… Mondziov-Sosnowiecz [a suburb of Katowice and a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian … modern education, studied at a gymnasium and then at the city’s University and the Conservatory of Music. He … community there, but ultimately settled his court in New York. Yet, he died in the Land of Israel during his last …

Joseph Achron

… throughout Europe and the Near East , finally settling in New York in 1925. There, he continued teaching and performing, … En-Harod. From 1925 on, Achron lived in the USA , first in New York , where he joined other eminent representatives of …

Moshe Koussevitsky

… a post at Temple Beth El in Brooklyn , NY . While living in New York , Koussevitsky toured in America , South Africa and …

Gustav Mahler

… a post as the Director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the New York Philharmonic. Mahler’s musical beginnings in Vienna …

Nahum Nardi

… a performance which established the status of their new music in the eyes of critics. [1] The next year, they … which was performed at Madison Square Garden in New York. Nardi established a girls' choir, and invited the … Aviv in 1977 following several brain strokes. The Tel Aviv City Council, then headed by mayor Shlomo Lahat, conducted …