Poster Announcing Rabbi Yaakov Levine from New York as High Holidays Cantor For Kneseth Israel Synagogue
1941
caption:
The back side of this poster appears to have been used as scrap paper and lists out the various Mesechtas of Gemara in Shas along with how many pages and how many chapters each Mesechta has.
Identifer: CJF.2012.002.6632
Medium
Cardboard
Topics
Chazan / Cantor; Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year); Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement); Kneseth Israel Congregation of Cincinnati (Rabbi Silver’s shul)
Collection
Kneseth Israel Congregation Collection
Description
Cantor Levine was born and educated in Kovno Lithuania and when still a youth, was sent by the music instructors of that city to the music academy in Berlin, Germany, where he studied music and voice culture until 1923. There he was introduced to a number of outstanding opera singers who, after hearing his voice, endeavored to persuade him to take up opera. Being a pious young man, Rev Levin preferred Synagogue music, in which he specialized as singer and composer, and later accepted a position in one of the largest Orthodox Synagogues in Berlin under the late Dr. Rabbiner Hildesheimer. In 1925 he came to America and officiated in many large congregations and also conducted many successful concerts in various cities.
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