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Elias Zaludkowski
Hazzan and writer. Elias Zaludkowski was born in Meitchet, Poland. He was the son…
Akiva Zimmermann
Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…
Hugo Adler
Hugo Adler was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He sang in the choir of Yossele Roenblatt in…
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…
Mattityahu Shelem
Born in Zamoscz, Poland. Immigrated to Palestine in 1922, settled in Kibbutz Bet-Alfa…