Leibele waldmann biography for kids

American Jewish cantor (1907–1969)

Louis "Leibele" Waldman (June 22, 1907 – August 28, 1969) was a Jewish cantor (“chazzan”), composer and actor, the only American-born cantor who may be considered as belonging to the great cantors of the so-called "golden age of Jewish cantorial music".^{[1][page needed]}

Biography

Louis Waldman born to a family of Jewish Galician immigrants living in the Lower East Side of New York City.

Early on he was recognized as a "wunderkind", officiating at the pulpit with a choir by the age of nine. He studied with local musician Shabtai Weingarten. His Yiddish name "Leibele" is the diminutive form of Leib. Waldman was the choir leader in the Wayne Street Synagogue of Jersey City (1924), the Livonia Street Synagogue of Brownsville (1925), the Flatbush Jewish Center (1925–26, with Cantor Samuel Katzman) and in the Galician Synagogue of Passaic in 1927.

In 1928 he assumed his first adult cantorial posit