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Moishe Oysher (Yiddish: משה אוישער) (March 8, 1906 – November 27, 1958) was an American cantor, recording artist, and film and Yiddish theatre actor. During the 1940s and 1950s he was one of the top Hazzans and his recordings continue to be appreciated due to his rich, powerful voice and creative arrangements.
Moishe Oysher. 1906 – 1958. Moishe Oysher was celebrated as a serious and vocally gifted hazzan and also as an exciting stage and film performer. Born in Lipkon (Lipkany), Bessarabia, to a family that boasted six generations of cantors, he was drawn to the stage even as a child.
Moishe Oysher: Music Born in 1907 in Bessarabia, Imperial Russia (Moldova) and died in 1958 in New York. Although he may have come from a family of cantors ...
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Moishe Oysher (Yiddish: משה אוישר, (born 1906 in Lipkon (Lipkany), Bessarabia, Imperial Russia – died 27 November 1958, New Rochelle, New York, USA). was a cantor and Yiddish theatre actor. He is considered one of the most entertaining chazanim (cantors) ever recorded.
1906 - 1958Moishe Oysher was celebrated as a serious and vocally gifted hazzan and also as an exciting stage and film performer. Born in Lipkon (Lipkany), Be...
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Moyshe Oysher. Actor: Singing in the Dark. Moyshe Oysher was born in 1907 in Lipkany, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire [now Lipcani, Briceni District, Moldova]. He was an actor and writer, known for Singing in the Dark (1956), The Singing Blacksmith (1938) and The Cantor's Son (1937).
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Jan 11, 2021 · Throughout the 1950s, when Yiddish theater productions and film screenings had become rare, specialty events in Pittsburgh, Oysher appeared in Pittsburgh for events to raise funds for the Hillel Academy day school and for local Zionist organizations.
