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Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich

… and composer. Born in Ukraine . Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St. Petersburg . In 1887 began officiating as …

Ernest Bloch

… violin and piano, the Israel Symphony (1916) and Avodath Hakodesh (1933) for baritone, choir and orchestra. Bloch’s post …

Samuel Alman

… 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based …

Moshe Koussevitsky

… tour as an Opera soloist in Moscow , Leningrad , Kiev and Odessa. In 1947, Koussevitsky emigrated to the United States …

… extensively, serving communities in Kherson, Lemberg, and Odessa, finally settling in New York to serve as the chief … Yeshurun Synagogue. In 1892, Minkowski was invited back to Odessa to take office as the chief cantor at the Brody … also deeply involved in Bialik’s intellectual movement in Odessa. He lectured at the Jewish Conservatory and was the …

Mordekhai Seter

… University) from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. A modest figure, he declined any institutional role, and since … these pieces he further developed the use of the original modes that he had invented for Midnight Vigil and … Jerusalem . He created during these decades 33 diatonic modes, which served as his core pitch material for 35 of his …

Wolf Shestapol

… Born in Odessa , Ukraine . Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a … he was exposed to while singing with Bezalel Shulsinger in Odessa , and studying with Salomon Sulzer in Vienna . His …

Bezalel Shulsinger

… Born in Uman, also know as 'Bezalel Odesser.' Served as cantor in Odessa for about thirty-five years, later moving to … … Composers … Cantor … Composer … Odessa … Synagogue … Music … Jerusalem … Bezalel Shulsinger …

Gershon Sirota

… At the age of 13, Sirota went to visit his grandparents in Odessa and was hired to lead services at the local Bet … Yakovkin, the choirmaster of the Shalashna Synagogue in Odessa , pursued Sirota until he agreed to join his choir. Consequently, Gershon’s parents moved to Odessa , where his father began working as a hazzan at one …