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Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Shlomo Ravitz
Shlomo Ravitz was born to Moshe and Fayge in Nevhardak, Belarus. Since childhood, he had…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…
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…
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Mordechai Seter
Mordecai Seter (Novorossyisk, 1916 – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926)…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
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…