BENZION SHENKER
BORN:1925
Years Active:
BIOGRAPHY
His connection to Modzitz began when he was a teenager. The Modzitzer rebbe, or chief rabbi, moved to Brooklyn as the Holocaust consumed much of Chasidic Jewry in Eastern Europe. On a Sabbath afternoon in 1941, the rebbe noticed Shenker humming Chasidic melodies written out in a book.
"The rebbe turned around and asked me, 'You know how to read notes?' " Shenker says. "I was all of 15 years old, and [he] couldn't believe that a kid of that age could read music. I said, 'A little.' After that, I became wh
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