Karchevsky was born in 1877 in
Petrovka, a village in
Russian-ruled
Bessarabia. He moved with his parents to the nearby town of
Bender, where he studied
Torah. At the same time, he learned piano and notation with his teacher, who was also a cantor (
hazzan) where he was heard by the well-known cantor Zeidel Rovner, who convinced his parents to move to
Kishinev, so the child could join the synagogue's choir. At the age of 22, he moved to
Warsaw, where he conducted an army orchestra. As a supporter of
Zionism, he
immigrated to the
Land of Israel in 1908, during the
Second Aliyah. He taught music there in several institutes, among them the
Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, where he founded an orchestra and a choir. ==Notes==