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David Nowakowsky
David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early…
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
Cantor and composer. Born in Ukraine. Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St.…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Mark Kopytman
Mark Kopytman (b. Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, 1929, immigrated in 1972, lived in…
Hugo Adler
Hugo Adler was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He sang in the choir of Yossele Roenblatt in…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Gil Aldema
Gil Aldema was born in the Borokhov neighborhood (today Giv'atayim), Israel. As a child…
Ernest Bloch
Swiss born American Composer Ernest Bloch was born on July 24, 1880 in Geneva,…
Zecharia Plavin
Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius…