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Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Walter Salmen
Walter Salmen was born in 1926, in Paderborn, Germany.
His career as a musicologist…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Samuel Alman
Samuel Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education…
Aaron Beer
Aaron Beer was born in Bamberg, Bavaria in 1739. He held his first cantorial post at the…
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk, Ukraine, and was first exposed to the…
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Israel Lovy
Israel Lovy was born in a town near Danzig in 1773. He received his formal Jewish…
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…
Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)
Born in Kherson, Ukraine, immigrated to Israel in 1906. Was a member of Kibbutz Yagur…