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Esther Sommerstein Zweig (July 29, 1906 – August 3, 1981) was an American composer, writer, translator, and teacher. She was born in New York and studied at Hunter College, New York University, the University of Vienna, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her instructors included composers Walter Damrosch and Kurt Weill. She taught choral music in the Hebrew schools of New York from 1927 to 1937. Zweig set poems by Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt to music and translated works by other authors into English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. She married Jacob Zweig on June 29, 1930. From 1949 to 1950 she directed the Esther Zweig Ensemble in New York. Zweig received an award from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1927 and a merit certificate from the University of Vienna. Today, the Jewish Theological Se

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