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Moishe Oysher

Born in 1907 in Bessarabia, Imperial Russia (Moldova) and died in 1958 in New York. Cantor at First American-Rumanian Synagogue in NYC's Lower East Side. Despite his great success as a cantor Moishe Oysher was ever the entertainer and became quite famous for his starring roles in Yiddish films, including "The Cantor's Son" (1936), "The Singing Blacksmith" (1938), and "Overture to Glory" (1940).