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Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Walter Salmen
Walter Salmen was born in 1926, in Paderborn, Germany.
His career as a musicologist…
Arno Nadel
Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
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Isaac Offenbach
Isaac Offenbach, born Isaac Juda Eberst, was born in Offenbach near Frankfurt. He left…
Max Helfman
Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist,…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…