Cantor Josh BreitzerBrooklyn, NY, United States
My great-grandfather Cantor Jacob Margolis studied at the Great Yeshiva in Vilna. In 1907 he went to England to teach Hebrew and later led a group of 200 families to Brazil. Soon after he brought his own family to Glen Cove, NY, where my paternal grandmother was born. Jacob helped found Congregation B’nai Israel in Freeport, NY, ultimately serving there for over 30 years.