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Elias Zaludkowski
Hazzan and writer. Elias Zaludkowski was born in Meitchet, Poland. He was the son…
Akiva Zimmermann
… to the study of hazzanut . Zimmerman grew up in Tel Aviv, a city where hazzanut flourished at that time. From a young …
Alois Kaiser
… at the Neusynagoge at Prague. Kaiser arrived in New York city in June, 1866, and in the following month was appointed …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… modern education, studied at a gymnasium and then at the city’s University and the Conservatory of Music. He … national stage. Geshuri became a member of the Jerusalem City Council and a representative at the Second Assembly of … with the immediate future… so that they will have the capacity to write down the melodies correctly or their …
Leon Algazi
Composer Leon Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in…
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
Cantor and composer. Born in Ukraine. Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St.…
Paul Dessau
Born in Hamburg, Germany. Immigrated from Germany in 1933 and returned in 1948 (to East…
Samuel Benaroya
… … One of the last singers of the Maftirim Choir of the city of Edirne (Turkey). … Samuel Benaroya …
Mark Kopytman
Mark Kopytman (b. Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, 1929, immigrated in 1972, lived in…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…