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Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
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Nissan Blumenthal
Nissan Blumenthal was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, and at the age of 21 held his first…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
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Isaac Offenbach
Isaac Offenbach, born Isaac Juda Eberst, was born in Offenbach near Frankfurt. He left…
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Morton Shanok
Cantor Morton S. Shanok worked for over sixty years as cantor and as chaplain to build…
Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in New York City in 1904.…
Edward Stark
Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor…
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
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The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Prior to the advent of modernity, Ashkenazi hazzanim acquired their cantorial skills by…