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Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach, a local music teacher…
Gideon Klein
Gideon Klein, pianist and composer, born December 6, 1919, in Přerov (Moravia). At the…
Hans Krása
Hans Krása, composer, born November 30, 1899 in Prague. Krása began taking piano…
Rafael Schächter
Rafael Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I,…
Yosef Hadar
Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his…
Karel Reiner
Karel Reiner, composer and pianist, born June 27, 1910 in Žatec (Western Bohemia).…