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Elias Zaludkowski
Hazzan and writer. Elias Zaludkowski was born in Meitchet, Poland. He was the son…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Arno Nadel
Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
Born in Shatsk (today Ukraine). Officiated as cantor in Vilna for thirty years (1893-…
Isaac Schlossberg
Isaac Schlossberg is a composer and conductor. He was born in 1877 in St. Petersburg…
Moishe Oysher
Actor and Hazzan Moshe Oysher was born in Lipkon, Bessarabia in 1907. He immigrated to…
Hirsch Glik
Hirsch Glik was born in 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…