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Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq … Samuel Benaroya in Seattle, performed ‘ud with Sephardic cantors, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant …
Hirsch Weintraub
… Hirsch Weintraub was born in Dubno , Poland . He was the son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started his musical … training at an early age singing as a chorister in his father's choir in Dubno, and also receiving formal studies of …
Albert Weisser
… parentage. He attended high school in Queens and sang in the choir of his uncle, the renowned cantor Joshua S. Weisser . He studied piano with Isaiah …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, … was a shochet (a ritual slaughterer), a baal-tefila (cantor), and a teacher of Gemarra. His mother, Malka, came …
Akiva Zimmermann
… Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted in the Intelligence Corps. He would also serve in the military … was interested in the world of hazzanut but he was never a cantor himself. Over the years, he developed a close …
Alois Kaiser
… American hazzan and composer, and considered to be the founder of American cantorate. Kaiser received his early education in the religious school of the Vienna congregation under Dr. …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a significant activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party … Eliezer (aka “Lejzor”) was a merchant but also a cantor (Geshuri describes him in his memoire [Geshuri 1970, …
Moritz Deutsch
… however that brought him to Vienna to study music and the cantorial tradition. In 1842 Deutsch was appointed assistant Cantor under Salomon Sulzer at the Liberal temple in Vienna. Deutsch was deeply influenced …
Leib Glanz
… Leib Glanz was born in Kiev in 1898. His father was the cantor at the Synagogue of the Talna Hasidim and at a …
Samuel Naumbourg
… in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue the long line of professional hazzanim in his family. He … synagogue choir. Naumbourg’s early appointments included a cantorial post in Besançon and a position as choirmaster of the Synagogue in Strasburg. In 1845 Naumbourg was invited to …