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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in New York City in 1904.…
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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
Portrayed by Readers' Digest as 'a top ranking composer;' in Christian…
Abraham Ellstein
Born in New York in 1907 (d. 1963), Ellstein sang as a chorister at local synagogue and…
Max Wohlberg
Max Wohlberg was born in Humene (today in Ukraine). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1923,…
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Music education in Jewish schools of metropolitan New York
Doctoral dissertation from Columbia University Teachers College. Music education in…
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The Jewish Bloch
Special Symposium Ernst Bloch: The Jew as European and American Composer On the…
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…