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Daughter of Mathieu Barraine, solo cellist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera, who was removed from this position during the nazi occupation, like the Jewish musicians of the orchestra, …

Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 3Oth 1813 – March 29th 1888), was a composer and precocious musician like Mozart, with a solid technique just like Liszt, and friend of Chopin (who “gave” …

Born in Łódź, the 11th of June 1897, in a Jewish bourgeois family, cultivated and music loving, Alexandre Tansman started composing music at a very young age « in the …

Born on April 25, 1952 in Strasburg, he was the last pupil, before it closed definitely, of the Hazan’s School in Paris, but he was also, and most of all, …

Leo Fuld was one of the last popular Yiddish singers. His career started long before World War II and ended when he died in 1997. Before the Second World War, …

Naftule Brandwein (1889–1963) was born in the small town called Przemyslany in Poland, not far from Lvov, belonging to Austrian Galicia at the time, and later returned to Poland in …

David Itsy Tarasyuk (ca 1898-1989), better known as Dave Tarras, was born in the village called Ternovka, near Uman in Ukraine. As a very young boy, he was immersed in …

Born on January 16th 1918 in Radom, a Polish town about 100 kilometers from Warsaw, Shalom Berlinski was the youngest son in a family of eight children. His father was …

Zohar Argov, whose real name is Zohar Orkabi was an Israeli singer, born in the city of Rishon LeZion in Israel, on July 16, 1955. Of Yemeni descent, from a …