Mordechai Hershman

The community granted him leave to lead the services on only two Sabbaths a month so that he could tour and give concerts for the rest of the time.

In 1920, Hershman emigrated to the United States, where he took up the position as chief hazzan at the Beth El Temple in Brooklyn, New York.

As was customary for noted hazzanim of the time, Hershman released several records of cantorial and Jewish folk music.

Hershman ranks among the great cantors of the golden age of Jewish cantorial music at the start of the twentieth century.

In 1925, Pinchas Yasinovski composed a piece for Hershman entitled "At the end of days" ("Vehaya Beacharit Hayamim"), for the inauguration of the Hebrew University campus at Mount Scopus, near Jerusalem.