Re: [CHAZON] Cantor Abraham Sukoenig - Park Ave. Synagogue (fwd)

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

Abraham Sukoenig was cantor at the Park Avenue Synagogue from 1914-1932. Our 
library has his successor Cantor David Putterman's Park Avenue papers and 
scores, and these included some of Sukoenig's manuscripts as well. They can be 
looked at in our special reading room most afternoons and may be accessed 
through our online catalog: http://sefer.jtsa.edu  Please search under the 
author's name: Sukoenig, Abraham.

I found no information in the three biographical sources I usually check for 
early twentieth century American hazzanim. This might be because Park Avenue 
was quite an assimilated synagogue at the time. It only became affiliated with 
the Conservative movement when both David Putterman became cantor and Milton 
Steinberg became rabbi in 1933.

These sources are:
Zaludkowski, E., Kulturtraeger von der Juedischen Liturgie, Detroit: E. 
Zaludkowski, 1930.

Jewish Ministers Cantor's Association of America, Di Geshikhte fun hazones: 
aroysgegeben tsum 30 yohrigen yubileum ..., New York: The Association, 1924.

Jewish Ministers Cantor's Association of America, Hazanuth: zamelbukh 
aroysgegeben tsum fertsig yohrigen yuval ..., New York: s.n., 1937.


Dr. Eliott Kahn
Music Archivist
Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
WK: (212) 678-8076
FAX (212) 678-8998
elkahn (at) jtsa(dot)edu



At 09:54 AM 12/13/02 +0100, I. Oppenheim wrote:
>Can anyone help this person?
>Forwarded message below.
>
>
> Groeten,
> Irwin Oppenheim
> i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:27:08 +0100 (CET)
>From: jmeltzer (at) nysnet(dot)net
>To: chazzanut (at) xs4all(dot)nl
>Subject: [CHAZON]
>
>I came across your website today and was wondering
>about obtaining information on other Chazzons (albeit
>not as famous as Yosselle Rosenblatt).  I refer here to
>someone in our family tree.  Abraham Sukoenig (original
>name Sukenik) immigrated to the USA from Ivnets,
>Belarus.  He was the Chazzon for Park Ave. Synagogue
>from approximately 1910 until his passing in 1936.  
>Does anyone have any info on him?
>
>title = Cantor Abraham Sukoenig - Park Ave. Synagogue
>

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