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Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
Portrayed by Readers' Digest as 'a top ranking composer;' in Christian…
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
Zikmund Schul was born on January 11, 1916 in Kassell, Germany. Schul studied…
Boris Thomashevsky
Boris Thomashevsky, son of Yiddish actor and playwright Pincas Thomashevsky, was born in…
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Edward Stark
Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor…
Dudu Barak
Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…