Passover seder melodies [sound recording] : archival tape / [Cantor David J. Putterman, vocalist with accordion accompaniment]. [between 1960 and 1976]

Park Avenue Synagogue (New York, N.Y.)

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Putterman, David

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David J. Putterman was born in 1900 on an immigrant ship en route to New York City. As a boy he was alto soloist in the choirs of cantors Josef Rosenblatt, Gershon Sirota and Zeidel Rovner. During the nineteen-twenties Putterman recorded in Yiddish and Hebrew for the Victor, Brunswick and Vocalion labels. In 1933 both Putterman and Rabbi Milton Steinberg were offered to lead New York's Park Avenue Synagogue. By the time of Rabbi Steinberg's premature death in 1950, they had transformed the congr...