Mr. Benno Weis

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1910, he learned the nusach by listening to Chazon Benno Peissachowitz. Mr. Weis was one of our ba'alei kriah for almost our entire first 50 years and davened on various occasions, including Yom Kippur Mincha.  He taught numerous bar mitzva boys and recorded the complete repertoire of our nusach and k'rais hatorah.  He was niftar in New York in 1999.

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