Cantor Joseph Eidelson Live Pesach Sahchris Mussaf

Joseph Eydelson - a cantor, a singer. He was born January 10, 1916 in Warsaw, in the family modzhitskih Hasidim. Already at the age of 16, was promoted to the Warsaw synagogue cantor "Sinai." Later he served as cantor in Lviv. In 1935 he received the chief cantor of Vilnius city synagogue. Sometimes performed in concerts with a repertoire made ​​up of Jewish folk songs and opera arias. During the Second World War was in the Vilna ghetto. He was an actor of Jewish Theater "Tikva" and soloist of the choir under the direction of Hebrew songs Durmashkina Wolf. Having survived a miracle in the ghetto, Eydelson short lived and worked in Palestine. In 1947 accepted the post of cantor's largest synagogue, Johannesburg, Yeovill (Yeoville), and moved to South Africa. Later moved to Canada, where he was cantor Montreal synagogue "Young Israel". From 1950 he lived in New York City, where more than 40 years old Brooklyn synagogue cantor "East Midwood Jewish Center". Joseph Eydelson died November 21, 2004 in New York.