Israel Schorr (1886 - April 9, 1935) was a prominent cantor during the Golden Age of Hazzanut.
Born in Khyriv, the Polish region of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Hasidic family, Schorr began his career as a boy, singing soprano in the courts of various Hasidic masters, notably the Rebbe (Grand Rabbi) of Rymanow.
[1] During World War I, Schorr served in the Imperial army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After the war, he took various cantorial posts in central and eastern Europe, including Brno in Czechoslovakia, Kraków in Poland and a brief stint in Zürich, Switzerland.
His best-known piece in this style is Sheyibone Beis HaMikdosh,[6] which was modified by Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky.