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Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Zecharia Plavin
Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…
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Israel Lovy
Israel Lovy was born in a town near Danzig in 1773. He received his formal Jewish…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Pinhas Minkowski
Pinhas Minkokwski was born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, where his father officiated as…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…