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Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach, a local music teacher…
David Zehavi
David Zehavi was an Israeli composer. His grandparents on his father's side immigrated…
Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer was a prolific singer and composer who built a unified Israeli cultural…
Edward Stark
Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria to father Josef Stark, a local cantor…
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Isadore Freed
Isadore Freed was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia on March 26, 1900. At the age of three,…
Frederick Piket
Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe…