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Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak Mizrahi, who was a well-known torah scholar and … of Alexandria asked him to stay and serve as their cantor and butcher, but he declined their generous offer. …
David Abikzer
… Abikzer was born in 1939 in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that he began his musical education. His vocal talent … age, and as a child he received encouragement from his mother to continue to sing. At age 17 he moved to Israel with … got married. Five years later, he was offered a position as cantor of the Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst , New York. As …
Isaac Offenbach
… travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der Offenbacher” which he later adopted as his … manuscripts are preserved, including twenty folders of cantorial compositions and transcriptions of traditional …
Morton Shanok
… Cantor Morton S. Shanok worked for over sixty years as cantor and as chaplain to build the cantorial profession in North America into what it is … Temple Beth-El in Rockaway Park, New York. With outbreak of the war, he served in the US Army as assistant chaplain from …
Jan Peerce
… in New York City in 1904. Peerce’s first instrument was the violin, beginning his performance career as a violinist … contract as a singer at Radio City Music Hall , New York . The exposure Peerce received from regular radio broadcasts … Jewish musical life, making regular appearances as a guest cantor in local synagogues and in cantorial concerts. Peerce …
David Roitman
… David Roitman was born in Dorozhinki, Russia, and was one of the leading cantors of his time. He was apprenticed with several cantors … Petersburg (1912-1917) and achieved great esteem both in the local Jewish community and across Europe. In 1923 he …
David Zehavi
… Zehavi was an Israeli composer. His grandparents on his father's side immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1877 as part of the first Aliyah. They came to Tiberias and later moved to … Arab cafes near our house.' His father hoped he would be a cantor. Zehavi studied in the Hebrew kindergarten in Jaffa …
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
… Born in Shatsk (today Ukraine ). Officiated as cantor in Vilna for thirty years (1893-1923). A prolific … melodies (1927). Two comprehensive biographies covering the life and works of Abraham Moshe Bernstein can be found … . Recordings of his compositions can be heard here . … Cantor & composer … 0 … American art music … Aleppo … Al …
Isaac Schlossberg
… born in 1877 in St. Petersburg to a family of hereditary cantors. His grandfather, Nathan Schlossberg, and his father, Arie-Leib Schlossberg (also known as Leibke Aluxter) …
Edward Stark
… Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems , Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor and butcher. As a young boy, Edward sang in his father’s choir along with his three older brothers. In 1871, …