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Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
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Ruth Rubin
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Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
Eleanor Chana Mlotek (neé Eleanor 'Chana' Gordon) was…
Dika Newlin
Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer…
Hadass Pal-Yarden
Hadass Pal-Yarden is an Israeli singer, musicologist, lecturer, Hazzan and cantor. She…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
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Myer Leoni
Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England. In 1767 he took a…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
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Wolf Shestapol
Born in Odessa, Ukraine. Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a prolific composer,…