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Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… was appointed by Rabbi Ousiel to officiate as cantor in the sephardic synagogue 'Ohel Moed,' and as choir director in Pirhei Kehuna College for Sephardic Hazzanut, of which he later became manager. His … as cantor and Ba'al Koreh, as can be seen in some of his songs that were based on verses from the bible ('Pitchu Li …
Nikolai Kaufman
… and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. Only … of this relatively small group of people (compared to the Sephardic community). (Kaufman 1990: 197). As part of the former Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria had a Sephardic majority consisting of descendants of immigrants …