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Sharing with you life stories of composers, performers and scholars of Jewish music.

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Meir Shimon Geshuri

Hasidic and Jewish music writer/researcher
1897-1977

Miriam Gideon

American Composer
1906-1996

Jacob Gilboa

Israeli composer
1920-2007

Louis Gilrod

Composer & lyricist of Yiddish theater music
1879-1930
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Leib Glanz

Cantor & composer
1898-1964
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Hirsch Glik

Poet and partisan in the Vilna ghetto, author of famous hymn "Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg" (Never say that you are walking the final road).
1920-1944

Mikhail Gnesin

Russian composer, teacher & writer
1883-1975

Shefa Gold

Rabbi, Composer, Spiritual Leader
1954 -

Geoffrey Goldberg

Researcher, visiting lecturer in Jewish Musicology at HUC-JIR, New York

Abraham Goldfaden

Yiddish poet, dramatist, and composer; father of the Yiddish theater
1840-1908

Israel Goldfarb

Cantor and composer
1879-1967

Jennie Goldstein

Yiddish theater actress & singer
1896-1960

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