Joseph Feldman

[4] At age 8 he started training with cantors and became a choir soloist, but was already becoming more interested in acting.

[4] He soon made a name for himself and before and during the First World War toured with various productions to other cities including Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Montreal.

[1] It was by the end of 1913 that he returned to New York and started his first test recording with a phonograph company, with one of his famous pieces Shichelach.

[7] With the passing of the Immigration Act of 1924 which greatly restricted Jewish immigration from Europe, and then the onset of the Great Depression by 1930, the market for Yiddish and klezmer recordings in the United States saw a steep decline, which essentially ended the recording career of many of the popular Yiddish artists of the 1910s and 1920s.

[13] After the Second World War he also released a song celebrating the creation of the State of Israel called Mazel tov Yisroel.