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Zalman Polak
… Born in Yugoslavia. 1919: Immigrated to Israel with his mother. 1920: Injured in the riots in Jerusalem. 1921: Invited to serve as cantor in The Great Synagogue, (Beit ha-Knesset ha-Gadol) of …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … of a reward. Among his prominent students are the cantors Yosef Sikron and Shmuel Alkalai, both Jerusalem …
Fabian Ogutsch
… Born in Podberezye, Lithuania. Officiated as chief cantor in Frankfurt am Main for thirty eight years. Ogutsch composed numerous choral settings for cantor and choir, published ' Der Frankfurter Kantor ' containing synagogue melodies of the Frankfurt tradition. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of …
Boruch Leib Rosowsky
… Born in Naliboki, Vilna, served as cantor in the Great Synagogue of Riga and was a very popular … cantor of his time. Rosowsky composed several works for the synagogue, the most important of which was Schirei …
Jan Radzynski
… Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1969, and studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. In 1977, he moved to the U.S. and studied at Yale University where he was a … musical elements of the Jewish Eastern European cantorate, Middle Eastern heterophony, and contemporary …
Jacob Rappaport
… he studied with Zeidel Rovner , and started performing as a cantor at the age of 18. He immigrated to the United stated in 1920. There he held different cantorial …
Shelomo Zalman Rivlin
… Born in Jerusalem where he officiated as cantor at the Shirat Israel Synagogue for 60 years. He … of today's notable Israeli cantors, some of whom sang in the 'Shirat Israel' cantor choir that was established by …
Moshe Rudinow
… Rudinow was born in Liubech, Ukraine. He was orphaned at the age of eight, and was placed in the custody of Gedaliah Weinhause, a local cantor. Already at a young age he appeared as a cantor in …
Mordechai Sobol
… Born in Hadera, Israel, where he performed as a cantor from a young age. He composed, orchestrated, and … for cantor and choir. One of Sobol's main projects was the establishment of the Yuval Ensemble for cantorate and Jewish music, where he …
Bacon Family
… Hirsch Leib (1875-1928) Cantor and composer Born in Kolbuszow , Poland . … melodies and Psalms in Nowy Sacz, and later officiated as cantor in Chryzanow. He composed many pieces of liturgical … , Galicia and later in New York . Composed sections of the prayer service, some of which have been published. …