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Leyb Rozental
… one of the most prolific writers of revue theater in the Vilna ghetto. Many of his songs were written for and sung by … Könisburg in January 1945. … Songwriter & playwright in the Vilna Ghetto … Composer … Songwriter … Playwright … Vilna … Ghetto … Chayele … Leyb Rozental …
Avraham Slep
… Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There he conducted a choir that brought … In the mid-20s, Slep became a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was … the late 1920s, Slep led the Vilner Buildings Gesellschaft (Vilna Educational Society Choir), which soon became the …
Josef Bonime
… Composer, pianist, and conductor Josef Bonime was born in Vilna in 1891, and immigrated to the United States with his …
Lucy Levin
… Lucy Levin was born on July 1906 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania. In 1908 she came with her parents …
Eliakum Zunser
… was probably derived from Zunse (a small village near Vilna, Lithuania), where his ancestors lived prior to moving to Vilna, where he was born. In his early youth he attended the … sentiment. In 1861 he abandoned embroidery, returned to Vilna, and decided to become a badhan . From 1860 to 1870 …
Joseph Altschul
… Cantor-composer, teacher and Thalmudic-scholar. Born in Vilna. Studied Talmud in Courland and cantorial arts in …
Yoel David Lewensohn- Strashunsky
… was born in Liepaja, Latvia. He worked as a cantor in Vilna (1830-1841), and achieved fame in Lithuania and Poland … … Cantor … Composer … Vilna … Poland … Yoel David Lewensohn- Strashunsky …
Boruch Leib Rosowsky
… Born in Naliboki, Vilna, served as cantor in the Great Synagogue of Riga and …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… collector for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Vilna, submitting Yiddish folktales and songs, … the collectors who participated in the YIVO seminar in Vilna, conducted by Yehudah Leib Cahan, who encouraged him …
Eduard Birnbaum
… identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study hazzanut with Salomon Sulzer . In 1869, … taking a short two month break between posts to return to Vilna and study with Sulzer. Finally in 1879, Birnbaum … own account, he was offered a position to succeed Sulzer in Vilna, but decided to remain in Koenigsberg where he was …