Sirota, Gershon

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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