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Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Alexander L. Ringer
Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Emanuel Aguilar
Emanuel Aguilar, brother of author Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
Hanina Karaczewski
Hanina Karaczewski was born in Petrovka, Bessarabia. Before immigrating to Palestine in…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Joel Rubin
Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and…
Julius Chajes
Julius Chajes (b. Lwow, 1910 - d. Detroit, 1985) studied piano under Richard Robert,…