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Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a child, Weisser was exposed to the tradition of Hassidic melodies and Hebrew zemirot through his father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical … In 1909, at the age of 21, Weisser began his official cantorial career, serving as the hazzan of the Vinitsa …
Efraim Di-Zahav (Goldstein)
… Born in Jerusalem on January 30, 1902, His father was R. Abraham Moshe Goldstein, a cantor who immigrated to Israel from Odessa, and who was a pupil of the renowned cantor Bezalel Odesser-Schulsinger. The young …
Yeruham Blindman
… Yeruham Blindman served as a cantor in Kishnev, Tarnopol and Berdichev. By 1834 he was … as a cantor for Synagogues throughout Poland and the Ukraine. He became known as “Yeruham Hakatan” (the little one) because of his small stature. Blindman was …
Nissan Blumenthal
… Nissan Blumenthal was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, and at the age of 21 held his first cantorial post at the local Synagogue. In 1841 he was appointed cheif hazzan …
Mikhail Gnesin
… Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical education with Cantor Gerovitz and pianist Oscar Fritch at the Rostov Technical Institute. He went on to study …
Mordekhai Hershman
… was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today Chernihiv in Ukraine and died in … in several synagogue choirs accompanying distinguished cantors. According to Zaludkowski (who probably received …
Jacob Beimel
… Born in Parichi, Belarus. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1915. Worked as cantor and conductor in Europe (Berlin and Copenhagen) and later in the U.S. (New York and Philadelphia). Has written many …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… . In 1853 he began working as choir master and teacher at the Orthodox Synagogue in Frankfurt , where he remained … a wide range of instructive texts on Hebrew grammar, and on the correct cantillation of the Bible according to the … three-volume collection of over 100 synagogue melodies for cantor and choir, covering the liturgy for Shabbat and the …
Pinhas Jassinowsky
… choirmaster at a local Synagogue. He immigrated to the United States in 1917, and began touring extensively, … Aseret ha-Dibberot, Shirat ha-Be’er and Ba-Yom ha-Hu . … Cantor & composer … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
Alter Yehiel Karniol
… synagogues. He left Hungary for a short while to work at the Ohab Zedek Synagogue in New York , returning to Russia to take a position of chief hazzan at the Great Synagogue in Odessa in 1889. With the onslaught of … music and original arrangements of Synagogue melodies. … Cantor … Alter Yehiel Karniol …