Hazzan Mordecai Gustav Heiser: An Artist, His Art, and the Cantor Tradition in America

by Gilya Gerda Schmidt

When Gilya Gerda Schmidt met him in 1986, Cantor Heiser had spent forty-six of his eighty-one years as a US citizen and was well-acquainted with mourning. Heiser had assumed the cantorate at Congregation B'nai Israel in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1942. A master of the cantor's art, he was renowned for his style, elegant choir and service arrangements, and rich, dolesome voice, which seemed to pass effortlessly into hearers' hearts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621908720
• ISBN13: 9781621908722
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 328 Pages