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Frederick Piket
… his childhood and early career in Europe, and immigrated to the United States in 1940, at the age of 37. His interest in synagogue composition began … taking a position as an organist and as music director of the White Plains Jewish Community center in the early …
David Beyglman
… at a young age, studying several instruments, chiefly the clarinet and the violin. In 1912, he became the director of the Yitskhok Zanberg Yiddish Theater …
Heinrich Schalit
… organist in synagogues in Munich and in Rome. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1940 and held positions as a synagogue organist … Heinrich.' Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Kahn, Eliott. 'The Heinrich Schalit Collection.' Further Reading: Biography about Schalit: Heinrich Schalit : …
Julius Chajes
… Rosenthal. He studied composition under Hugo Kauder. At the age of 15, Chajes performed his piano concerto Romantic Fantasy with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He was the Honor Prize winner at the First International …
Lazare Saminsky
… Ukraine. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1906-1910). In 1908 he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first … he composed several works, including two symphonies, and the piece Ch’siddish . In 1913 Saminsky was part of the …
Abraham Dunajewski
… Abraham Dunajewski was born in Russia. He wrote the book Israelitische Tempel Compositionen for Sabbath. His melody for Av Horahamim has become popular throughout the world. … Rusian cantor … Abraham Dunajewski …
Boruch Schorr
… His compositions were published by his son Israel. He was the father of Yiddish composer, lyricist, and actor Anshel Schorr …
Moishe Oysher
… to Canada in 1921, where he joined a traveling Yiddish theater company. In 1932, he founded a Yiddish theater troupe in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After managing the troupe for two years, Oysher decided to return to New …
Leibele Waldman
… as cantor in Boston , Passaic , and New York , and sang on the radio. Made many recordings of both liturgical pieces …
Boris Thomashefsky
… a small town near Kiev, Ukraine in 1868. He immigrated to the United States in 1881, and settled in New York City. … to New York, Thomashefsky joined a Synagogue chorister on the Lower East Side, which brought him in contact with … Thomashefsky orchestrated an American tour for a Yiddish theater company based in London. The troupe, with …