Lipa Feingold

Lipa Feingold (, 1878–1945) was a Russian-born American songwriter, pianist, composer, and jeweler. The peak of his popularity as a composer was in the 1920s and 1930s; his pieces were performed by many well-known New York Jewish music figures such as Abe Ellstein, Yossele Rosenblatt and Alexander Olshanetsky, and later by Theodore Bikel and Leibele Waldman. His father was a jeweler. As a youth, Lipa was interested in music and took lessons from the cantor and composer Nissan Spivak who was at that time living in Berdychiv. They had a second child, Charles, in New York in 1906. When Bessa contracted tuberculosis in 1907, a doctor recommended that they leave the city and they ended up settling in Denver, Colorado. Feingold also acted on stage in Denver Yiddish theatre productions, and had a solo singing and comedy act where he was occasionally accompanied by his wife who could play violin. Starting in around 1919 he also led a Zionist girls’ choir called Hatikvah. He became interested in children’s education and became a Sunday school music teacher at B’nai Israel. In 1923, after being invited as a guest soloist (Baritone) at Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph during the High Holida