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Josef Bonime
… Josef Bonime was born in Vilna in 1891, and immigrated to the United States with his family as a young boy. Bonime studied composition at The City College of New York and piano performance at … with famed violinists Mischa Elman and Eugene Ysaye. In the 1920’s he recorded for Vitaphone talkies such as Mischa …
Platon Brounoff
… in Yelisavetgrad in Russia. In 1891, immigrated to the U.S. and settled in New York. Founded and conducted the Poale Tsion Choir, the first Jewish secular choir in America. Collected over …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… Olshanetsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He played with the Odessa Opera orchestra and toured Russia and Siberia, and later was the choral director for a Russian operetta company. He … stayed in Kharbin (today in China), and conducted a Yiddish theater group there. In 1922, Olshanetsky immigrated to the …
Abraham Ellstein
… sang as a chorister at local synagogue and also for the Metropolitan Opera Children's chorus. He studied at The Juilliard School, and later worked as an accompanist for … and cantor Josef Rosenblatt . He is considered to be one of the four important Second Avenue composers. Ellstein was …
Abe Schwartz
… Full biography in Milken Archive . (The photo was taken from Abe Schwartz's Wikipedia page) … …
Max Leibowitz
… born in Iași, Romania and in September 1905 he emigrated to the United States along with his wife Sarah. He had 3 … an American klezmer violinist and was a contemporary of other Romanian-born klezmer bandleaders and recording artists in the New York City area that included Abe Schwartz , Joseph …
Arnold Perlmutter
… Biography in Milken Archive. … Composer of Yiddish theater music … Composers … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Arnold Perlmutter …
Herman Wohl
… (Milken Archive) click here . … Composer of Yiddish theater music … Composers … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Music … Herman Wohl …
Anshel Schorr
… Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of Yiddish Theater in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as a … three decades of activity, Schorr collaborated with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as Joseph …
Moshe Nathanson
… a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old city of Jerusalem. Moshe left the heder to attend Bet Sefer Lemel, the elementary division of the Ezra School in Jerusalem, …