Israel Goldfarb
Israel Goldfarb (Hebrew: ישראל גודלפרב; c. 1879 – February 13, 1967) was a Galician-born American rabbi, cantor, and composer. He led Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn for more than fifty years, and was a founder of and instructor at the Cantor's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He published numerous collections of melodies for synagogue, school, and home use.
Goldfarb has been celebrated as the "father of congregational singing" in synagogues, and many of his musical settings became so ubiquitous that they came to be regarded as traditional. He is perhaps best known for his popular setting of Shalom Aleichem.
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