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David Aaron de Sola
David Aaron De Sola was descended from a distinguished family of Sephardim, who…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)
Born in Kherson, Ukraine, immigrated to Israel in 1906. Was a member of Kibbutz Yagur…
Dudu Barak
Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Moshe Wilensky
Moshe Wilensky was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. During the first World War, his…
Jo Amar
In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He combined ‘paytanut’ and poetry…