Pinhas Jassinowsky was born in Romanovka, a small town outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Jassinowsky’s first exposure to Jewish liturgical music was as a choirboy under director Pinhas Minkowski in Kherson. He went on to study music in St. Petersburg where he worked as an assistant choirmaster at a local Synagogue. He immigrated to the United States in 1917, and began touring extensively, performing in Synagogues and giving public concerts. Jassinowsky was also a prolific composer of liturgical and Yiddish folk music. His most well known liturgical arrangements include, Ve hayah be-Aharit ha-Yamim (1926), Aseret ha-Dibberot, Shirat ha-Be’er and Ba-Yom ha-Hu.
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson province, to parents Abraham and Anna Secunda. He was the sixth of nine children born to the Secunda family...
Joshua Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser) was born in 1888 in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a child, Weisser was exposed to the tradition of Hassidic melodies and Hebrew zemirot through his father Aba...