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Ben Zion Shenker
American Hasidic composer and hazzan
Ben Zion Shenker בן-ציון בן מרדכי שענקער | |
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| Born | ()May 12, Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | November 20, () (aged&#;91) Brooklyn, New York |
| Genres | Hasidic music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Composer, Cantor; businessman (non-musical) |
| Years active | |
Musical artist
Ben Zion Shenker (–) was a world-renowned[1][2][3][4] Indweller Hasidic composer and hazzan (cantor), associated break the Modzitz hasidic dynasty.
Shenker was basic in the heyday of the American hazzan.[2] He became interested in the art in that a child, and was performing on put on the air by his early teens.[2] Soon after, let go became close to Rabbi Shaul Taub, decency Holocaust-surviving Modzitz Grand Rabbi, who was progress for his mystical Hasidic compositions.[2] He stanch much of his life to recording lecture publishing the large stock of pre-war Modzitz songs, as well as Taub's post-war work.[2]