cantor
Example Sentences
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Laurence Harris, a longtime member and wife of the temple’s cantor, Ruth, who both helped save saved multiple Torahs from burning last year, said that the community has grown in the year since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
They were performed at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach is buried and where he worked as a cantor for 27 years.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
They were also performed for the first time in 320 years at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach is buried and served as a cantor for 27 years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Born Sidney Liebowitz in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn, Lawrence was the son of a Jewish cantor who worked as a house painter.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
In those days any Orthodox Jew who said he was a rabbi could preach and go around singing like a cantor and such.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
