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Alter Yehiel Karniol
… Hungary, where he began officiating in a number of local synagogues. He left Hungary for a short while to work at the Ohab Zedek Synagogue in New York , returning to Russia to take a position of chief hazzan at the Great Synagogue in Odessa in 1889. With the onslaught of pogroms …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… city walls and built a new home across from the Sephardic Synagogue in the newly established neighborhood of … shawl pouches, and ornamented curtains for the ark in the Synagogue. Asher was married at a young age to Rachel of the … the career. In 1926, he was invited to perform at the great Synagogue Eliyahu Ha’Navi in Alexandria , Egypt . In awe of …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… book suspended from the ceiling of its former main Sephardi synagogue, now a museum. Both Hebrew and Ladino were spoken …
Isaac Offenbach
… Jacques Offenbach . Offenbach was a noted composer of synagogue and secular music. The majority of his musical … of cantorial compositions and transcriptions of traditional synagogue melodies. His manuscripts were donated to The …
Jacques Offenbach
… and both boys earned their keep by singing in a local synagogue choir. Due to financial difficulties, Jacques was …
Jan Peerce
… life, making regular appearances as a guest cantor in local synagogues and in cantorial concerts. Peerce also made …
David Roitman
… in New York, officiating as a cantor at the Sha'arey Tzedek Synagogue from 1924 until his death. As a cantor, he had a …
Isaac Schlossberg
… tenor) and Edelman (later cantor in one of the Viennese synagogues). At the age of 13, Schlossberg became an … first time conducted the Grand Choir of the Vilna Choral Synagogue. Later he entered the Warsaw Conservatory. In … he was for a short time choir director of the Great Warsaw Synagogue. His wife, Sonya, and two daughters, Manya and …
Edward Stark
… he was offered a position at Emanu-El, the largest Reform Synagogue in San Francisco . Emanu-El was one of the first synagogues to use the Union Prayer Book, and as such, Stark … to introduce instruments, aside from the organ, into the synagogue service. Only two of his works for choir and …
Joseph Shlisky
… around 1894. As a child, he sang in the choir of the local synagogue. A cantor from a neighboring village heard the … of the 20th century, the Jewish community in Toronto grew, synagogues flourished, and hazzanut began to prosper as an art. Like elsewhere in North America, Toronto synagogues looked to Eastern Europe to recruit a cantor and …