Hazzans

1927 film by Alan Crosland

A hazzan (; , ) or chazzan (, plural ; ; ) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who leads the congregation in songful Jewish prayer. In English, a hazzan is often referred to as a cantor, a term also used in Christianity.

Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (1840–1908)

Jewish Romanian opera singer (1904-1942)

American opera singer (1913-1975)

American opera singer (1904–1984)

Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer (1882–1938)

Ukrainian-born hazzan (cantor) (1882–1933)

Jewish musician (1925–1994)

Russian singer (1877–1953)

American actress

Jewish American actor and cantor (1907–1958)

Venetian rabbi and polymath

French composer (1827-1905)

Dutch singer (1912–1997)

Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.

Polish hazzan (1874–1943)

Croatian chess master and hazzan (1860–1942)

Ukrainian composer and cantor (1824–1906)

italian-American rabbi

Austrian-Hungarian Jewish cantor and composer, regarded as "the one Chasanim, the cantor of the cantors" (1901–1975)

American musician

Swiss singer (1956-2009)

German composer (1834–1894)

Polish singer (1899–1966)

French composer (1817–1880)

American Jewish singer

Russian men's a cappella ensemble

Israeli rabbi

Hazzan, solo singer, travel agent (1919-2014)

Latvian composer (1878–1962)

German composer (1850–1925)

composer

Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica

Jewish cantor and composer (1884–1943)