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Platon Brounoff
Conductor, arranger, and composer of Yiddish music. Born in Yelisavetgrad in…
Uzi Chitman
Uzi Chitman was born in Tel Aviv on June 9th, 1952, and passed away on October 17th 2004…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
Neil Levin
Artistic Director of the Milken Archive since 1993, Neil W. Levin has devoted his…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
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Moishe Oysher
Actor and Hazzan Moshe Oysher was born in Lipkon, Bessarabia in 1907. He immigrated to…
Akiva Zimmermann
Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
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Israel Lovy
Israel Lovy was born in a town near Danzig in 1773. He received his formal Jewish…