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Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a…
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.…
Lazar Weiner
For full biography at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music click here
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
Born in Shatsk (today Ukraine). Officiated as cantor in Vilna for thirty years (1893-…
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Leibele Waldman
Cantor. Born in New York, USA. Officiated as cantor in Boston, Passaic, and New…
Max Helfman
Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist,…
Rafael Schächter
Rafael Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I,…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…