Yaakov Rosenfeld

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Rosenfeld was born in 1979 in Jerusalem with great cantorial and musical background. His cantorial Rosenfeld family was well renown in Hungary before the Second World War. His great-grandfather Moshe Yonah Schlesinger served as cantor and headed the choir in the Orthodox community shul in “Tshaba” near the border of Romania. His maternal grandfather Rabbi Mordechai Shalom Rochman served as a choral soloist with Moshe Koussevitzky in Warsaw. Later he became a young cantor and appeared in many communities in Romania. His Paternal grandfather, Rabbi Naftali Rosenfeld ran the prayer services at the very young age of 13 in various Hungarian communities and led the prayer services in Israel to this day. The prominent Cantor now serves as a cantor on Rosh Hashan and Yom Kippur in the famous Motevide Synagogue in the 16th district of Paris, France. He also serves as a guest cantor in many communities around the world including Der Shul in Miami Beach, The Bratislava Shul in Slovakia, The Bethal Synagogue in Brooklyn, The Hampton Synagogue with Rabbi Schneier, The Great Synagogue in Jerusalem and The BIalystok Synagogue in NYC. He also appears in concerts worldwide.