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Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Isadore Freed
Isadore Freed was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia on March 26, 1900. At the age of three,…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
Simha Arom
A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of…
Israel Adler
Israel Adler (1925-2009): In Memoriam
Israel Adler died on August 17, 2009 after a…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…