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Arno Nadel
Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in…
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk, Ukraine, and was first exposed to the…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
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David Nowakowsky
David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
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Alois Kaiser
Alois Kaiser (November 10, 1840, Szobotist, Hungary - 1908, Baltimore, Maryland)…
Akiva Zimmermann
Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted…
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn…
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Esther R. Warkov
Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish…