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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Mordechai Seter
Mordecai Seter (Novorossyisk, 1916 – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926)…
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach, a local music teacher…
Robert Starer
Born in Vienna, and came to Palestine after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany.…
Joseph Dorfman
Joseph Dorfman was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He studied Piano and Composition at the…
Lancers (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Sher
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…