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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… Galicia made it easy for me to think of acquiring an education. The praise of Moses Mendelssohn, the champion of … growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and then at the city’s … various initiatives aimed at establishing schools for the cantorial arts. He collaborated with the distinguished …
Samuel Naumbourg
… hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing in Maier … synagogue choir. Naumbourg’s early appointments included a cantorial post in Besançon and a position as choirmaster of …
Samuel Alman
… born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of … . Alman was deeply influenced by the Eastern European cantorial tradition, specifically by the work of hazzanim …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… the Ramailes Yeshiva to supplement his Jewish and secular education. He received his first cantorial post at the Great Synagogue of Vilna. In 1924, …
Pinhas Minkowski
… his father officiated as a cantor. Minkowski studied the cantorial tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan Spivak . …
Arno Nadel
… was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard Birnbaum … a participant in his all boy-choir, and then as a private cantorial student. In 1895 Nadel enrolled in the Jewish …
Sholom Secunda
… choir in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk) to receive cantorial training and to sing as a soloist in his choir. … successful debut in Yekaterinoslav, and his reputation as a cantorial prodigy spread quickly. That spring, Sholom … halt. However, he continued his musical and general education at Eron Prep School, and began taking private …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical education with the local hazzan of Novata Ushitsa, who … In 1909, at the age of 21, Weisser began his official cantorial career, serving as the hazzan of the Vinitsa … his time in America, Weisser was involved in many Cantorial organizations and Institutions. In 1937, he was …
Joseph Shlisky
… meet for his family, she offered to pay for his musical education at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (TCM), run by … next few years. Nevertheless, he never really abandoned the cantorial arts. His recital programs over his career were … and remained at that Synagogue for two years. Over his cantorial career, Shlisky served at several synagogues in …
Israel Goldfarb
… America (JTSA). As a secondary practice, he studied musical education at Columbia University and received some musical … trained future rabbis in the basics of the cantorate. As a cantorial teacher and a prominent figure in the Society for … put much effort in promoting the establishment of a modern cantorial school. The work of the Society made possible the …