Frank London

Frank London

male
trumpeter, Jewish, backup vocals, Klezmer musician, klezmer, trumpet…jewishmusic
Frank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, and one of the most prominent American musicians active in klezmer...
Shloime Dachs

Shloime Dachs

male
Marine Park, Brooklyn, Orthodox Jew, jewishmusic, musician, ohel, Jewish
Shloime Dachs is an American singer of Jewish music. He lives in or near New York City. Having been a member of Amudai Shaish and Tz'lil V'Zemer as...

Sam Glaser

male
musician, Jewish American, jewishmusic
Sam Glaser (born 1962 in Los Angeles) is a popular composer, performer and interpreter of Jewish music. Considered one of the top ten Jewish...
Naftule Brandwein

Naftule Brandwein

male, deceased (1963)
Stratyn, Strettener, french horn, drum, Yehuda Hirsch Brandwein, Badkhn…Jewish person, gypsy music, jewishmusic, Music of Turkey, Music of Greece
Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, (1884-1963) was a Jewish clarinettist and one of the most influential figures in the history of klezmer...

Samuel Naumbourg

male, deceased (1880)
Solomon de Rossi, Edmond de Rothschild, composer, jewishmusic, Classical musician, strasburg…liturgical music, Jewish
Samuel Naumbourg, French composer. After having held the office of chazzan and reader at Besançon and directed the choir of the synagogue at S...
German Goldenshteyn

German Goldenshteyn

male, deceased (2006)
death by myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction, heart attack, bessarabia, klezmer, jewishmusic…new england conservatory of music, Center for Traditional Music and Dance
German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10 2006) was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Mo...
Hugo Weisgall

Hugo Weisgall

male, deceased (1997)
Psalm of the Distant Dove, German literature, Johns Hopkins University, Songwriter, Conductor, World War II…vocal music, jewishmusic, Curtis Institute of Music, Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish
Hugo Weisgall was an American composer, known chiefly for opera and vocal music. He was born in Eibenschitz (now Ivančice), Moravia (then part of A...
Leo Levi

Leo Levi

male, deceased (1982)
Musicologist, italian music, rai, ethnomusicology, jewishmusic, fascism
Leo Levi Italian musicologist was the first to study the oral musical traditions of Italian Jewry. Grandson of a rabbi, Levi’s attempt to submit a...
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn

Abraham Zevi Idelsohn

male, deceased (1938)
Latvian, Jewish person, Hebrew Union College, folk music, folk song, Musicologist…jewishmusic, Jewish
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם צְבִי אידלסון; middle name also rendered "Zvi", "Zwi", or "Zebi"; 1882-1938) was a prominent Jewish ethn...

Amnon Of Mainz

male
rabbi, Kalonymus, Rosh HaShannah, Israel of Krems, Isaac of Vienna, Day of Judgment…jewishmusic, Jewish person
Amnon of Mainz or Amnon of Mayence is the subject of a medieval legend that became very popular. It treats of Rabbi Amnon, a wealthy and respected...