Lipa Feingold

[1][2][3] The peak of his popularity as a composer was in the 1920s and 1930s; his pieces were performed by many well-known New York Jewish music figures such as Abe Ellstein, Yossele Rosenblatt and Alexander Olshanetsky, and later by Theodore Bikel and Leibele Waldman.

[1] Feingold was born on November 17, 1878, in Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (today located in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine).

As a youth, Lipa was interested in music and took lessons from the cantor and composer Nissan Spivak who was at that time living in Berdychiv.

[3][1] While living in Denver and mainly supporting himself as a jeweler, he composed Yiddish and English music and would often send them to New York to be published or performed.

[13] In 1923, after being invited as a guest soloist (Baritone) at Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph during the High Holidays, he became a regular supporting singer and eventually director of the synagogue's choir.