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Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Pinhas Minkowski
Pinhas Minkokwski was born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, where his father officiated as…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
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…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Jacob Beimel
Born in Parichi, Belarus. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1915. Worked as cantor and conductor…
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Alter Yehiel Karniol
Alter Karniol was born in Dzialoszyce, a small province in Poland. He studied under…