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Nikolai Kaufman
Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) Yankov Kaufman (or Kauffman,…
Efraim Yaakov
Efraim Yaakov was born in 1953 and raised in Nahariya, to a family from Hogeriya in…
Akiva Zimmermann
Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
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Fritz Rikko
Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
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Sigmund Feinman
Born near Kishinev, Feinman acted in Bessarabia and Romania, went to New York …
Simeon Bellison
Clarinetist and teacher. Born in Moscow, immigrated to the U.S. in 1920. Achieved high…