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Shlomo Ravitz

… pieces himself. At the age of 15, he went south to Kiev and Odessa, where he graduated with honors from a high school of …

… to hazzan Nissan Blumenthal at the Brody Synagogue in Odessa. Nowakowsky was deeply influenced by Blumenthal’s … of music theory and harmony at the People’s Conservatory of Odessa. Odessa was one of the great centers of the Haskalah …

Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich

… and composer. Born in Ukraine . Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St. Petersburg . In 1887 began officiating as …

Samuel Alman

… 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based …

Moshe Koussevitsky

… tour as an Opera soloist in Moscow , Leningrad , Kiev and Odessa. In 1947, Koussevitsky emigrated to the United States …

Pinhas Minkowski

… extensively, serving communities in Kherson, Lemberg, and Odessa, finally settling in New York to serve as the chief … Yeshurun Synagogue. In 1892, Minkowski was invited back to Odessa to take office as the chief cantor at the Brody … also deeply involved in Bialik’s intellectual movement in Odessa. He lectured at the Jewish Conservatory and was the …

Wolf Shestapol

… Born in Odessa , Ukraine . Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a … he was exposed to while singing with Bezalel Shulsinger in Odessa , and studying with Salomon Sulzer in Vienna . His …

Bezalel Shulsinger

… Uman, also know as 'Bezalel Odesser.' Served as cantor in Odessa for about thirty-five years, later moving to … … Cantor … Composer … Odessa … Synagogue … Music … Jerusalem … Bezalel Shulsinger …

Gershon Sirota

… At the age of 13, Sirota went to visit his grandparents in Odessa and was hired to lead services at the local Bet … Yakovkin, the choirmaster of the Shalashna Synagogue in Odessa , pursued Sirota until he agreed to join his choir. Consequently, Gershon’s parents moved to Odessa , where his father began working as a hazzan at one …