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Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Mordecai Gebirtig
Gebirtig gained his fame as a Yiddish bard, both composing the lyrics and melodies for…
Amnon Shiloah
Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah…
Yehuda Ratzaby
Prof. Yehuda Ratzaby was born in the small village Sava'n in central Yemen, a two-hour…
Joseph Papernikoff
Joseph Papernikoff was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of…
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
Isaac Eliyahu Navon was born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His…
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions…
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
Kashtan (Shlomoh ben Shimshon, or Salomon, the son of Samson), aka Salomon Weintraub…
Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor won the Israel Prize in 1998. As part of the reasons for the award, it was…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…