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Victor Tunkel
In Memoriam
The Jewish Music Music Research Centre bemoans the loss of Victor…
Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann was born in Teschen (now Český Těšín), Czech Republic on January 1, 1898…
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Fritz Rikko
Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the…
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Samuel Naumbourg
Samuel Naumbourg was born in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
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…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…