(MUSIC).
AUCTION 59 |
Thursday, June 20th,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Ceremonial Objects and Works of Art
Lot 232
(MUSIC).
Dvinsk (Daugavpils, Latvia), 1933:
Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
Moshe Koussevitzky (1899-1966) was a celebrated cantor and vocalist who made many recordings in Poland and the United States. Cantor of important congregations in Vilna and Warsaw he first performed in the United States in 1938, at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Koussevitzky escaped the Nazis during the Holocaust by fleeing to the Soviet Union and in 1947 he and his family emigrated to New York where he became cantor of Boro Park’s Temple Beth-El.