Moshe Taube

He was a popular concert performer in Israel in the 1950s and later became a successful recording artist in the United States.

He began singing and studying music by age 8 in a choir led by his mentor, the prominent cantor Yossele Mandelbaum.

In 1942, he and his father were assigned to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, while his mother and sister were murdered, along with dozens of his extended family members.

[3] After being rescued, Taube first lived with a relative in Romania, then a short time later he and his father immigrated to British-ruled Palestine, which became Israel in 1948.

[3][4] Taube immigrated to the U.S. in 1957 and continued his music education at the Juilliard School in New York City.