Author: Editor

Uknown Cantors: Hanns John Jacobsohn

Cantor Hans John Jacobsohn (1890-1942) was the High Cantor for the City of Berlin and the Progressive Synagogue from the late 1920s until his death in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in May of 1942.

He was unable to escape Nazi Germany, like his wife and daughter because he was born

History of KAJ Choir

Khal Adath Jeshurun of Washington Heights,NY – The spirit of our choir is not the “Kol Demama Daka”- the mild and meek voice – that rose out of the hollow chambers that produced “churchy” music, but the fervor of German Jewry al fortissimo.

Here we discuss the history of the