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Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…
Shlomo Ravitz
Shlomo Ravitz was born to Moshe and Fayge in Nevhardak, Belarus. Since childhood, he had…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Erich Walter Sternberg
Erich Walter Sternberg (Berlin, 1891 – Tel-Aviv 1974, immigrated in 1932) was the first…
Ernst Toch
Full biography in Milken Archive.
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Uri Aharon
Composer, researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical,…
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
Cantor and composer. Born in Ukraine. Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St.…
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David Nowakowsky
David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early…