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Simha Arom
A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of…
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
Jacques Stroumsa was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and…
Samuel Naumbourg
Samuel Naumbourg was born in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue…
Leon Algazi
Composer Leon Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Israel Lovy
Israel Lovy was born in a town near Danzig in 1773. He received his formal Jewish…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Mordechai Seter
Mordecai Seter (Novorossyisk, 1916 – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926)…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…