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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Zecharia Plavin
Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Arno Nadel
Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
Avraham Slep
Avraham Slep, composer, teacher, conductor, and arranger, was born in 1884. It is not…
Leon Blank
Leon Blank was born in Lithuania in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family moved to…
Aaron Lebedeff
Aaron Lebedeff was born in Gomel, Russia in 1873. As a young adult, he often appeared in…
Lucy Levin
Lucy Levin was born on July 1906 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania. In 1908 she came with…