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Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Isadore Freed
Isadore Freed was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia on March 26, 1900. At the age of three,…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
Simha Arom
A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of…
Israel Adler
Israel Adler was born in Berlin in 1925 and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…