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Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Joseph Rumshinsky
Full biography in Milken Archive.
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Raffi Ben-Moshe
Born in Jerusalem 1928. Graduated from Kaduri High School (1946). Founder of kibbutz…
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Manfred Lemm
Manfred Lemm was born on April 17, 1946 in Potsdam. In the 1960s he moved with a band…
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn…