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

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Theodore Holdheim

Theodore Holdheim

Israeli composer
1923-1985
Bronislaw Huberman

Bronislaw Huberman

Violinist & founder of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra
1882-1947
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

Cantor & Researcher of Jewish music
1882-1938
Frederick Jacobi

Frederick Jacobi

Composer
1891-1952
Hanoch Jacoby

Hanoch Jacoby

Israeli composer
1909-1990
Eli Yafe

Eli Jaffe

Israeli conductor
1953-
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Israel Meyer Japhet

Composer & teacher
1818-1892
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Pinhas Jassinowsky

Cantor & composer
1886-1954
Tzipora Jochsberger

Tzipora Jochsberger

American-Israeli composer, musicologist and educator
1920-2017
Shmerke Kaczerginski

Shmerke Kaczerginski

Poet, folkorist & partisan in the Vilna ghetto
1908-1954
Shlomo Kalib

Sholom Kalib

Cantor and musicolgist
1929-
Bertha Kalish

Bertha Kalish

Yiddish theater actress & singer
1872/4-1939

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