Sirota, Gershon

Person · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/ep/1000051

Also known as (6 names)

he: סיראטא, גרשון · סיראטע, גרשון
pl: Gerszon Sirota
–: Gershon Sirota · Sirota, Gerson · Sirota, Gerszon

Born: 1874
Died: 1943
Place of death: Warsaw
Place of death (as recorded): Warschau
Occupation: Hazzan

(1874–1943), cantor, concert singer, and recording celebrity. Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia; little is known about his early years. His first appointment as a cantor was in Odessa, and he also served in Vilna. In 1908, he became cantor of the Tłomackie Street Synagogue in Warsaw, a position that he left in 1927 to devote himself to a concert career. He toured the United States several times and in 1935 became the cantor at Warsaw’s Nożyk Synagogue. He died with his family in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943.

Identifiers

DBpedia: 5 links
Geršon_Sirota cs · Gershon_Sirota · Gershon_Sirota fr · Gerszon_Sirota pl · Q2915432 wikidata
Freebase: m.0504tl rdf
GND: 134811267 · about
Library of Congress: n93038697 id · n93038697 id
VIAF: 64199828
Wikidata: Q2915432
catalogue.bnf.fr: cb139805067 catalogue
en.wikipedia.org: Gershon_Sirota en
hub.culturegraph.org: 134811267 hub
www.isni.org: 0000000081438311
yago-knowledge.org: Gershon_Sirota

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Sirota, Gershon

date-enriched dbpedia-persons interlinks records-normalized

19 statements

gnd identifier: 134811267
gnd identifier: http://d-nb.info/gnd/134811267
birth date: 1874
normalised birth date: 1874
birth year: 1874
death date: 1943
normalised death date: 1943
death location: Warschau
death location URI: Warsaw
occupation: Hazzan
occupation: http://data.judaicalink.org/data/occupation/Kantor
occupation URI: Hazzan
subject: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Hazzans
alternative label: Gershon Sirota @en
alternative label: Gerszon Sirota @pl
alternative label: Sirota, Gershon
alternative label: Sirota, Gerson
alternative label: Sirota, Gerszon
preferred label: Sirota, Gershon

Sirota, Gershon

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1 statements

preferred label: Sirota, Gershon

Sirota, Gershon

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11 statements

birth date: 1874
normalised birth date: 1874
death date: 1943
normalised death date: 1943
dcterms:source: datasets/nli-persons
alternative label: Sirota, Gerson
alternative label: סיראטא, גרשון @he
alternative label: סיראטע, גרשון @he
preferred label: Sirota, Gershon
preferred label: סירוטה, גרשון @he
foaf:gender: male

Sirota, Gershon

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9 statements

described at: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sirota_Gershon
has abstract: (1874–1943), cantor, concert singer, and recording celebrity. Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia; little is known about his early years. His first appointment as a cantor was in Odessa, and he also served in Vilna. In 1908, he became cantor of the Tłomackie Street Synagogue in Warsaw, a position that he left in 1927 to devote himself to a concert career. He toured the United States several times and in 1935 became the cantor at Warsaw’s Nożyk Synagogue. He died with his family in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. @en
title: Sirota, Gershon
alternative label: Gershon Sirota
preferred label: Sirota, Gershon
has related: Cantors
has related: Odessa
has related: Vilnius
has related: Warsaw

History

Merged into this page:

data/ep/1443716 (2026-10-12)
data/ep/1810367 (2026-10-12)

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