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Israel Meyer Japhet
… . In 1853 he began working as choir master and teacher at the Orthodox Synagogue in Frankfurt , where he remained … a wide range of instructive texts on Hebrew grammar, and on the correct cantillation of the Bible according to the German tradition. The most known …
Pinhas Jassinowsky
… choirmaster at a local Synagogue. He immigrated to the United States in 1917, and began touring extensively, …
Hanina Karaczewski
… received teaching posts at several institutions, including the Herzlia Gymnasium, where he remained for over eighteen years. While teaching there, he established a youth choir and orchestra as well as … songs and arrangements were published posthumously in the collection Zelilei Hanina (1927). Several of his songs …
Alter Yehiel Karniol
… synagogues. He left Hungary for a short while to work at the Ohab Zedek Synagogue in New York , returning to Russia to take a position of chief hazzan at the Great Synagogue in Odessa in 1889. With the onslaught of pogroms in 1905, Karniol left Odessa for …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak Mizrahi, who was a well-known torah scholar and teacher. After the first few years of Asher’s life, his family moved …
David Abikzer
… Abikzer was born in 1939 in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that he began his musical education. His vocal talent … age, and as a child he received encouragement from his mother to continue to sing. At age 17 he moved to Israel with his family, where he served in the Israeli army and got married. Five years later, he was …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… The Rev Eliezer Abinun Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1912. He began his studies at the Jewish seminary in Sarajevo, where his father, though not a hazzan himself, was regarded as an expert …
Isaac Offenbach
… travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der Offenbacher” which he later adopted as his … years until his death in 1850. Isaac Offenbach was Father to ten children, among them the famous composer Jacques …
Jacques Offenbach
… Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach , a local music teacher and hazzan. He was identified as a musical prodigy early on, and at the age of four he began to study violin with his father. By age nine, Offenbach took up study of the cello, …
Moshe Zacuto
… See Edwin Seroussi's article (in Hebrew): The Musical World of Moses Zacuto in Light of his Sacred …