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Elias Zaludkowski
… in Milan and Berlin . He held posts as Hazzan in Warsaw , Vilna, and Liverpool , England , and in 1926 went to the …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… direction of Hazzan Ephraim Shlepak. Koussevitzky moved to Vilna as an adolescent to study voice with Hazzan Elijah … received his first cantorial post at the Great Synagogue of Vilna. In 1924, Koussevitsky was chosen to replace Hazzan …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in …
Gershon Sirota
… as the cantor of the Shtatshul (local synagogue) in Vilna, a position he held for eight years. It was in Vilna that Sirota began his collaboration with choirmaster … a close colleague throughout his career. While working in Vilna, Sirota staged several large-scale concerts with the …
Mordekhai Hershman
… and was appointed, Chazan Sheni (Assistant Cantor) to the Vilna Synagogue, earning 12 roubles a month! When the … opposition, he was appointed Chazan Rishon himself. Since Vilna was one of the most flourishing centers of Jewish …
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
… Born in Shatsk (today Ukraine ). Officiated as cantor in Vilna for thirty years (1893-1923). A prolific composer who …
Isaac Schlossberg
… cantors. He studied music and the basics of hazzanut in Vilna under the guidance of cantor Kogan and choirmaster … and for the first time conducted the Grand Choir of the Vilna Choral Synagogue. Later he entered the Warsaw …
Moishe Oysher
… Cantor's Son (1937), The Singing Blacksmith (1938), and The Vilna Balabosl (1940). Throughout his career, Oysher made …
Hirsch Glik
… Hirsch Glik was born in 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing poetry at the age of 13, and was … years in literary circles such as Yung Vilne (Young Vilna) and its offshoot, Yungvald (Young Forest). In … city. One of the most significant political forces in the Vilna ghetto was the underground Fareynigte Partizaner …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that … Poland led to Kaczerginski's eventual imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works … Partisans Organisation, participating in the failed Vilna Ghetto uprising and then escaping to the forest to …