Hazzan Joshua Dlin, born in Bessarabia (present-dayRepublic of Moldova), was recognized as a child prodigy at age seven. Din attended the Chisināu Conservatory of Music and the Warsaw Academy of Music. He studied voice with several respected teachers including Russian opera singer Professor Gorsky and Professor Lelivia Warsaw. From 1924 to 1926, he was hazzan at the Acre Synagogue in Chisinäu, and from 1926, he was hazzan of the Sinai Synagogue in Warsaw. In 1939 he was appointed hazzan of the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv. Din moved to Montreal and succeeded Ephraim Schlepack as Chief Cantor at Beth David Congregation on S.t Joseph in 1948. He composed music for liturgy including the Sabbath prayer "V'shomru" that could be sung by synagogue choirs together with soloists and the hazzan. The style of hazzanut under Schlepack and Dlin at Beth David (the Rumanishe, or Romanian, shul) was considered more exotic than the Litvak (Lithuanian/Russian) style of the B'hai Jacob synagogue on Fairmount, but equally loved. Din remained cantor at Beth David until 1970, after the synagogue's 1965 mer- ger with Tifereth Jerusalem (becoming the "TBD]" synagogue) and move to Côte Saint-Luc. He had one of the most beautiful voices in world history, some songs and today are kept in specialized archives.