Israel Eljasz Maroko

Around 1915, Israel Eljasz Maroko married and had four children. Before moving to Amsterdam, he was a chazan in Kalisch, Tarnow and Bratislava. He was known for his musical ear and his beautiful voice.
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On 6 June 1926 Israel Eljasz Maroko was appointed chief cantor at the Main Synagogue in Amsterdam. He ran the services at the Great Synagogue on the Jonas Danie…

March 22, 2013 President Barack Obama will be shown sheet music with a Passover composition by cantor Israel Eljasz Maroko:

“From some 154 million pages of documentation in the Yad Vashem Archives, we chose to show President Obama a unique manuscript that survived the Holocaust – the sheet music with an original composition, written in 1941, for the Passover liturgal poem Had Gadya,” said Yad Va…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 448) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for looted securities or bonds. (W-claim, number 649\).

Op dit adres stond ook S.W. Maroko ingeschreven: Szymon (Simme) Wolf Maroko. Hij kreeg in oktober 1941 als joods student een verbod om verder te studeren aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Bron Joods Historisch Museum