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Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
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Yeruham Blindman
Yeruham Blindman served as a cantor in Kishnev, Tarnopol and Berdichev. By 1834 he was…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Gershon Sirota
Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village…
Mattityahu Shelem
Born in Zamoscz, Poland. Immigrated to Palestine in 1922, settled in Kibbutz Bet-Alfa…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Marc Lavry
Marc Lavry was born in Riga, Latvia and received his formal musical education at the…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…