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Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk, Ukraine, and was first exposed to the cantorial…
Shlomo Ravitz
Shlomo Ravitz was born to Moshe and Fayge in Nevhardak, Belarus. Since childhood, he had…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Wolf Shestapol
Born in Odessa, Ukraine. Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a prolific composer,…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach, a local music teacher…
Joseph Kaminski
Born in Odessa, (toady in Ukraine). Studied music in Warsaw, Berlin and Vienna.…
Edward Stark
Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor…
Heinrich Schalit
Born in Vienna, Austria. Studied in Vienna, and later worked as an organist in…
Julius Chajes
Julius Chajes (b. Lwow, 1910 - d. Detroit, 1985) studied piano under Richard Robert,…