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    Title

  • Cantor Eduard Birnbaum : photo portrait reading musical score

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 23 x 31 cm

  • Date

    [circa 1919]

  • Place of Publication

    [Koenigsberg, Pr.]

  • Summary

    Caption: "Ed. Birnbaum Oberkantor der Synagogen Gemeinde Koenigsberg Pr. Aus Anlass seines vierzigjaehr. Amtsjubilaeums (1879-1919)".

    [Ed. Birnbaum on occasion of his 40th anniversary as chief cantor of the Jewish congregation in Koenigsberg, Prussia.]

    Verso: "Eduard Birnbaum Oberkantor geb. 1855 Krakow gest. 1920 Koenigsberg".

  • Depicted

    Birnbaum, Eduard, 1855-1920

  • Subject

    Cantors; Rabbis; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Drei Synagogen-Gesänge, AR 3302

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Biographical/Historical Information

The influential cantor Eduard Birnbaum was born in Krakau (Kraków, Poland) in 1855. After studying synagogal music with Salomon Sulzer in Vienna, Birnbaum sang in Magdeburg and Beuthen, before he was appointed chief cantor in the Jewish community of Königsberg. He published several works on liturgical music. Eduard Birnbaum died in Königsberg (Kaliningrad) in 1920.

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Citation

Cantor Eduard Birnbaum : photo portrait reading musical score, Leo Baeck Institute, F 12030.