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Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
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…
Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer was a prolific singer and composer who built a unified Israeli cultural…
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Joel Rubin
Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and…
Julius Chajes
Julius Chajes (b. Lwow, 1910 - d. Detroit, 1985) studied piano under Richard Robert,…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
Richard Newman
Richard Jacob Newman was a composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher. Neumann…