Izso Glickstein information

Izso G. Glickstein (HU: Iczek Glückstein. Alternative names recorded: Isidore, Isaak, Yitzchok, Izso Garay, Izso Garai Glueckstein, Izso Gary) was a naturalized American cantor (hazzan). Glickstein was born on September 20, 1889, in Chișinău, Moldova and died on April 17, 1947, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a fourth-generation, world-class chazzan and one of the "leading Jewish singers in America ranking with Cantor Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt and others of equal prominence."^[1] He served as Chief Cantor at multiple synagogues including Europe's largest (the Great Synagogue of Budapest) and Leonard Bernstein's childhood synagogue in Roxbury, Massachusetts (Temple Mishkan Tefila). He hosted a weekly radio program on Boston's WORL and was heard often on WNAC to popularize Hebrew music. Izso performed hundreds of concerts, was the President of the New England's Cantor's Association, and made multiple recordings of cantorial music.^[2]