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Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
Morris Rosenfeld
Morris Rosenfeld, born as Moshe Jacob Alter in 1862 in Stare Boksze, in Suwałki County…
Efraim Yaakov
Efraim Yaakov was born in 1953 and raised in Nahariya, to a family from Hogeriya in…
Akiva Zimmermann
Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium,…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
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…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…