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Auction 27 · Lot 383
Posters. Three Posters promoting Cantorial Concerts.
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(MUSIC).
Place
Jerusalem, 1930’s.
Description
Tears and stains
summary
These posters from the heyday of chazanuth (cantorial arts) promote concerts by the all-time greats: Mordechai Herschman (1888-1940), who at age 25 was appointed chief chazan of Vilna; Moshe Steinberg, former cantor of the Great Synagogue of Odessa; and Zevulun (Zavel) Kwartin (1874-1953). Whereas Herschman and Steinberg resided in the United States, Kwartin was then residing in Eretz Israel