Mandel, Shelomoh
MANDEL, SHELOMOH
MANDEL, SHELOMOH (1909–1981), *ḥazzan. Mandel was born in Nowy Zanz, Galicia. He studied ḥazzanut, the specific melodies and musical style of the solo cantorial singer, under Moshe Steinberg and Moshe *Koussevitzky in Vilna and music at the Warsaw Conservatory. After serving as ḥazzan in Warsaw and Cracow he was appointed to the Berea synagogue in Johannesburg in 1934, remaining there until he immigrated to Israel in 1974. Of a ḥasidic background, he incorporated ḥasidic melody into the traditional melodies. Among his records is one of the whole Passover Haggadah. He taught ḥazzanut.
[Akiva Zimmerman (2nd ed.)]
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