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    Moshe Koussevitzky (Hebrew: משה קוסביצקי, Polish: Mosze Kusewicki; June 9, 1899 in Smarhoń, Russian Empire – August 23, 1966 in New York City) was a cantor...
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  • Notable people with the surname include: Moshe Koussevitzky (1889–1966), Belarusian-born cantor Sergei Koussevitzky (1874–1951), Russian-born conductor This...
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    acoustics, and seating for up to 1,800 people. Yossele Rosenblatt, Moshe Koussevitzky, Zavel Kwartin, Moishe Oysher, Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker were...
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    singing as a teen in concerts with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky. Herstik's first teacher was his father, Moshe Menachem Herstik who taught him the basics...
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    Leib Glantz. In the post–World War II period, prominent cantors were Moshe Koussevitzky, David Werdyger, Frank Birnbaum, Richard Tucker and Abraham Lopes...
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  • Some of the great Jewish cantors of this era include Abraham Davis, Moshe Koussevitzky, Zavel Kwartin (1874–1953), Jan Peerce, Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt...
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    through the 1940s and early 1950s, Moshe Koussevitzky, from 1952 to 1966, Paul Zim (Zimelman), from 1966 to 1968, Moshe Stern, from 1968 to 1977, and Benzion...
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  • this style is Sheyibone Beis HaMikdosh, which was modified by Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky. He was married to Mina Pinczowski Schorr and had two sons and four...
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    Sandy Koufax (born 1935), Hall of Fame major league baseball pitcher. Moshe Koussevitzky, cantor and vocalist Shulem Lemmer (born 1990), singer and entertainer...
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  • Brooklyn, a pulpit served by Mordechai Hershman, Berele Chagy and Moshe Koussevitzky, and continued as cantor of the synagogue, now Congregation Young...
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