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Marc Lavry
Marc Lavry was born in Riga, Latvia and received his formal musical education at the…
Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Max Helfman
Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist,…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
Yankele Hershkowitz, a tailor by trade, was a popular street performer in the Lodz…