Israel Alter

Israel Alter (1901-1979)

Israel Alter was born in Lemberg (Lwow), Poland at 23 September of 1901. His family was noted for its line of distinguished rabbis. With the rise of Hassidism in the eightteen century, the family was drawn into the movement and so it came about that young Israel was raised in a typical ultra-Hassidic home.

He had early developed a beatiful voice, and by the time he was seven was often called upon to chant the services in the local synagogue. At the close at World War I, having turned seventeen, young Israel decided to devote himself to music. 

With the reluctant consent of his parents he left for Vienna to enroll in the State Academy for Music and Art, where he was a pupil of the renowned Professor Stefan Pollman, presently in London. He also studied hazzanut with the two most distinguished cantors of Vienna, Yitshak Tsvi Halperin and Leibush Miller. At twenty Alter took his first cantorial position, succeeding Josef Basser at the Brigittenauer Tempel-Verein and serving for three years.

In 1925 he was called by the Jewish community of Hanover, Germany to be obercantor of the Synagogen Gemeinde. there he remained for ten years. There he remained for ten years. 

With the rise of Hitlerism Alter left Germany in 1935 for South Africa to become cantor in Johannesburg - The United Hebrew Congregation. Here he continued until 1961, when he moved to the United States and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music in New York.

с сокращениями Helen & Benedict Stambler

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Adon Olom (Salomon Sulzer) Israel Alter Parlophon P.94452-1 1929

Lekho Dodi (Salomon Sulzer)
Israel Alter Parlophon P.94454 1929

Ma Tovu (Louis Lewandowski) Israel Alter Parlophon B.12096-II 1929

Maoz Tsur
Israel Alter Parlophon B.12098 1929

V'hogen Baadenu (Louis Lewandowski) Israel Alter Parlophon P.9452-II 1929

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Adon Olom (Salomon Sulzer) Israel Alter Collectors Guild CG 633

Adon Olom (Salomon Sulzer) Israel Alter Musique Internationale M-7315 1980

Adon Olom (Salomon Sulzer) Israel Alter Odeon OSX 168 (XEEX 6) 1960

Adon Olom (Salomon Sulzer) Israel Alter Parlophone CPMC.5 (XEEX.6)

Lekho Dodi (Salomon Sulzer)
Israel Alter Collectors Guild CG 633

Lekho Dodi (Salomon Sulzer)
Israel Alter Musique Internationale M-7315 1980

Lekho Dodi (Salomon Sulzer)
Israel Alter Odeon OSX 168 (XEEX 5) 1960

Lekho Dodi (Salomon Sulzer)
Israel Alter Parlophone CPMC.5 (XEEX.5)

Ma Tovu (Louis Lewandowski) Israel Alter Musique Internationale M-7324

Maoz Tsur
Israel Alter Collectors Guild CG 633

Maoz Tsur
Israel Alter Odeon OSX 168 (XEEX 5) 1960

Maoz Tsur
Israel Alter Parlophone CPMC.5 (XEEX.5)

Unter Di Poylishe Grininke Beymelekh (Yosef Papernikov - Israel Alter) Yekhiel Burgin Israphon 808862 1982

V'al Y'day Avadecha (Israel Alter) Erno Grosz Tambur Records TR593

V'hogen Baadenu (Louis Lewandowski) Israel Alter Collectors Guild CG 633

V'hogen Baadenu (Louis Lewandowski) Israel Alter Odeon OSX 168 (XEEX 5) 1960

V'hogen Baadenu (Louis Lewandowski) Israel Alter Parlophone CPMC.5 (XEEX.5)

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