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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…
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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
Portrayed by Readers' Digest as 'a top ranking composer;' in Christian…
Avraham Slep
Avraham Slep, composer, teacher, conductor, and arranger, was born in 1884. It is not…
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Sigmund Feinman
Born near Kishinev, Feinman acted in Bessarabia and Romania, went to New York …
Moshe Nathanson
Moshe Nathanson, son of Rabbi Nahum Nathanson, was born in Jerusalem in 1899. Until…
Zalman Zylbercweig
Zalman Zylbercweig was born in a small town outside of Lodz, Poland. His father was…