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Gershon Sirota
… Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village cantor. As a boy, Sirota frequently assisted his … arriving in Vienna , Sirota made the acquaintance of Joseph Singer , the successor of Salomon Sulzer at the …
Efraim Di-Zahav (Goldstein)
… Born in Jerusalem on January 30, 1902, His father was R. Abraham Moshe Goldstein, a cantor who immigrated to Israel from Odessa, and who was a pupil of the renowned cantor Bezalel Odesser-Schulsinger. The young Efraim studied in Heder and Yeshivas, as …
Michele Bolaffi
… a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be considered a turning … director to the Duke of Cambridge; toured in Germany with singer Angelica Catalani; and was in the service if Louis …
Mordekhai Hershman
… was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today Chernihiv in Ukraine and died in … Relief Fund'. From an early age Hershman was a child singer in several synagogue choirs accompanying …
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 … the leading composers of Tunisian song. The great Tunisian singers of the time, both Muslim and Jewish, performed his …
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 … … 625 … Hazzan and singer … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, …
Jan Peerce
… in New York City in 1904. Peerce’s first instrument was the violin, beginning his performance career as a violinist … band. In 1933, he was offered a long-term contract as a singer at Radio City Music Hall , New York . The exposure Peerce received from regular radio broadcasts …
David Zehavi
… Zehavi was an Israeli composer. His grandparents on his father's side immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1877 as part of the first Aliyah. They came to Tiberias and later moved to … is kept in the National Library. His son's wife is the singer Dafna Zehavi, who often sings songs by David Zehavi …
Menachem Kipnis
… from Issachar Fater's Jewish Music in Poland between the World Wars , pp. 182-189, in Zchor website. … Singer, song collector & writer … 0 … Menachem Kipnis …
Isaac Schlossberg
… Petersburg to a family of hereditary cantors. His grandfather, Nathan Schlossberg, and his father, Arie-Leib Schlossberg (also known as Leibke Aluxter) … and choirmaster Moshe Dorguzhansky, in whose choir he was a singer. His fellow practitioners were Yosef Rumshinsky , as …