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Efraim Di-Zahav (Goldstein)

… Moshe Goldstein, a cantor who immigrated to Israel from Odessa, and who was a pupil of the renowned cantor Bezalel Odesser-Schulsinger. The young Efraim studied in Heder and …

… he was appointed cheif hazzan at the Brody Synagogue in Odessa, a position he held until his death in 1903. During … his time there, he established the first Chor-Schul in Odessa where he developed choral singing for four voices. …

Mordekhai Hershman

… in Brooklyn, N.Y., which at the time was housed in a modest-sized building; but his services attracted such …

Alter Yehiel Karniol

… take a position of chief hazzan at the Great Synagogue in Odessa in 1889. With the onslaught of pogroms in 1905, Karniol left Odessa for New York , where he was re-hired at the Ohab …

Joseph Kaminski

… Born in Odessa, (toady in Ukraine). Studied music in Warsaw, Berlin …

Edward Stark

… in Anim Zmirot utilize the adonai malakh and magen avot modes. Stark’s style was heavily influenced by the classical …

Joseph Shlisky

… Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he sang in the …

Isadore Freed

… his course offerings to include a class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers a systematic harmonic language by which to understand the Jewish modes as they have been treated by a variety of synagogue …