… Menashe Ravina was born in Pereyaslav , now part of Ukraine, to Elazar, a cantor and candy factory owner, and …

… Max Wohlberg was born in Humene (today in Ukraine). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1923, where he sang …

… Joseph Dorfman was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He studied Piano and Composition at the Odessa …

… 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel Sveta, was the local … Leksikon     … Journalist … 0 … Yiddish … Journals … USA … Ukraine … Russian music … Herman Svet … biography …

… Thomashefsky, was born in Tarasche, a small town near Kiev, Ukraine in 1868. He immigrated to the United States in 1881, …

… of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine. In order to avoid the draft, Golfaden’s father took … then went on to study at a rabbinical seminary in Zhitomir, Ukraine, where he began writing poems, songs, ballads, and …

… Born in Shatsk (today Ukraine ). Officiated as cantor in Vilna for thirty years …

… Bertha Kalish was born in Lemberg (present day Lviv, Ukraine) ca. 1872. She began her stage career as a member of …

… Beregovski. Located at the Vernadski National Library of Ukraine in Kiev , this invaluable repository of pre-WWII …

… Cantor and composer. Born in Ukraine . Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St. …

… Born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, immigrated to the U.S. in 1912. Widely considered … … Rosenblat, Joseph … Cantor … Composer … Opera … Film … Ukraine … United States … Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt … Josef …

… Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a child, Weisser was exposed to the tradition of …