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Moritz Deutsch
Moritz Deutsch was born in Nikolsburg, Moravia and was identified at an early…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
Naomi Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk, Ukraine, and was first exposed to the…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Mordechai Seter
Mordecai Seter (Novorossyisk, 1916 – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926)…