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Yedidyah Admon
Yedidya Admon was born in Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine in 1894. He emigrated to Palestine…
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…
Johanna L. Spector
Born in Libau, Latvia. During WWII she was imprisoned in various concentration camps,…
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
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Pinhas Jassinowsky
Pinhas Jassinowsky was born in Romanovka, a small town outside of Kiev, Ukraine.…
David Abikzer
David Abikzer was born in 1939 in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that…