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Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann was born in Teschen (now Český Těšín), Czech Republic on January 1, 1898…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Paul Dessau
Born in Hamburg, Germany. Immigrated from Germany in 1933 and returned in 1948 (to East…
Erich Walter Sternberg
Erich Walter Sternberg (Berlin, 1891 – Tel-Aviv 1974, immigrated in 1932) was the first…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Arno Nadel
Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
Zikmund Schul was born on January 11, 1916 in Kassell, Germany. Schul studied…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…