Currently booking for the 5780 (2020) Passover in the USA \/ Europe<\/strong><\/h3>Gabriel Birnbaum is an Israeli linguist, specializing in Mishnaic Hebrew, and a prayer leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>He holds a BA in Hebrew language and English linguistics from Bar-Ilan University, and a Master’s degree from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, where he served as a community Rabbi. His PhD concerns the language of the sages in the Mishnah.<\/span><\/p>He is currently a senior researcher at the Historical Dictionary Project at the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>Birnbaum’s main cantorial influences are\u00a0Yossele Rosenblatt and Leib Glantz. He is fond of the traditional Ashkenazi <\/span>nusach<\/span><\/i>, especially that of the High Holidays, and is adamant in preserving it in the synagogues where he prays, both as a leader and as a congregant.<\/span><\/p>He speaks fluent English, Hebrew, Hungarian and a good amount of Yiddish.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
He holds a BA in Hebrew language and English linguistics from Bar-Ilan University, and a Master’s degree from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, where he served as a community Rabbi. His PhD concerns the language of the sages in the Mishnah.<\/span><\/p> He is currently a senior researcher at the Historical Dictionary Project at the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Birnbaum’s main cantorial influences are\u00a0Yossele Rosenblatt and Leib Glantz. He is fond of the traditional Ashkenazi <\/span>nusach<\/span><\/i>, especially that of the High Holidays, and is adamant in preserving it in the synagogues where he prays, both as a leader and as a congregant.<\/span><\/p> He speaks fluent English, Hebrew, Hungarian and a good amount of Yiddish.<\/span><\/p>\n\t