Audio: Hazzan Joshua Rosenzweig sings « Tzadik Hashem » from the S’lichot Service with the B’nai Jacob choir. S’lichot are prayers of forgiveness generally recited in the weeks leading up to and during the Days of Awe.
Praised for his beautiful lyric tenor and great musical talent, Hazzan Joshua Rosenzweig sang at “the Carnegie Hall” of Montreal synagogues, the B’nai Jacob on Fairmount Avenue, beginning in 1947. Rosenzweig was born in Bochina (near Kraków), Poland, and received a Hasidic religious education. At the age of twenty-two, he became the shochet (ritual slaughterer) of Zevitz, in Western Galicia (most likely in present-day Poland). After completing his vocal and musical training he served as the cantor of Katovitz (Katowice, Poland). Rosenzweig moved to Palestine in 1939 and served as a cantor in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ramat Gan, while also singing for radio and performing in numerous concerts. In 1947, he moved to Montreal to become cantor at the B’nai Jacob. He moved with the synagogue to the amalgamated Chevra Kadisha B’nai Jacob in Snowdon in 1956 and remained there into the 1970s. He passed away in 1983.
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