Cantors (Judaism)

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Contains music and chants by Cantor Jacob Lefkowitz. File also contains a short memo strongly criticizing Rabbi Laderman's choice of a Cantata for a graduation program and a letter.

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This sheet music is for a song titled, "Haintige Chazonim," or in English, "The Cantors of To Day [sic]." The Hebrew charachters throughout the sheet music are Yiddish. On the back of the music are the verses and chorus written out in full. Words and music written by Lipa Feingold. Piano arrangement by Mae Jaffe. Published by Lipa Feingold in 1927. Engraved and printed by Radom & Neidorff, Inc.

Abstract Cantor Jacob Lefkowitz was considered one of the preeminent American-born cantors of the 20th century and composed liturgical music for prayers, psalms, cantatas and recitatives. His first cantorial positon was at Denver's Hebrew Educational Alliance, where he was cantor from 1941-1957. Jacob Lefkowitz was born in 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cantor Jacob Lefkowitz Cantorial Melodies collection contains three 33rpm 12-inch records with "Cantorial Melodies" composed and sung by Cantor Jacob...

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Paul Kwartin was a Brooklyn cantor who was born in Hungary and raised in Denver. He sang with the Central City Opera in Denver for eight seasons, appeared in a Broadway production of "No For An Answer", and was also a business manager. He died in his Westport, Connecticut home from cancer at age 63.