Velvel Pasternak (October 1, 1933 – June 11, 2019)[1] was a musicologist, conductor, arranger, producer, and publisher specializing in Jewish music.

"[4] Velvel Pasternak was born in Toronto in 1933 to immigrant parents from Poland.

[6] He also studied at the Juilliard School, and received a master's in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

[7] The founder of Tara Publications, he was responsible for the publication of 26 recordings and over 150 books of Jewish music since 1971, spanning the gamut of Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino, cantorial, Hasidic and Holocaust music.

He was the music teacher at the Congregation Sons of Israel synagogue in Woodmere, NY for many years.