MANDEL, SHELOMOH

MANDEL, SHELOMOH: MANDEL, SHELOMOH (1909–1981), ḥazzan . Mandel was born in Nowy Zanz, Galicia. He studied ḥazzanut, the specific melodies and musical style of the solo cantorial singer, under Moshe Steinberg and moshe koussevitzky in Vilna and music at the Warsaw Conservatory. After serving as ḥazzan in Warsaw and Cracow he was appointed to the Berea synagogue in Johannesburg in 1934, remaining there until he immigrated to Israel in 1974. Of a ḥasidic background, he incorporated ḥasidic melody into the traditional melodies. Among his records is one of the whole Passover Haggadah. He taught ḥazzanut. (Akiva Zimmerman (2nd ed.)

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ḤAZZAN — (pl. Ḥazzanim) (Heb. חַזָּנִים ,חַזָּן), cantor officiating in a synagogue; used in this specific sense since the Middle Ages. History of Role and Function The word frequently occurs in talmudic sources, where it denotes various types of communal … Encyclopedia of Judaism
MULLER, BENJAMIN — (1947– ), ḥazzan. Muller was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his grandfather, Samuel Sternberg, who was also his first teacher, was a ḥasidic ḥazzan. Muller attended Mir yeshivah in Jerusalem and studied voice development in Milan. He served… … Encyclopedia of Judaism

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