Ben Zion Shenker (May 12, 1925 – November 20, 2016) was an influential Hasidic composer, musician, and hazzan, renowned in Hasidic circles worldwide. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, to a family of the Trisker (Chernobyl) Hasidic dynasty, his musical talent emerged early; he attended both kheyder and public school, showed little interest in toys but was captivated by Yossele Rosenblatt's records on a wind-up phonograph. By his early teens, he performed on radio during the golden age of American cantors. At age 15, he discovered the Modzitzer repertoire through Rabbi Shaul Taub, a Holocaust survivor and Modzitz Grand Rabbi who resettled in New York in the early 1940s. Influenced by his mother's transmission of Hasidic melodies, Shenker devoted his life to preserving and promoting Modzitz music. He recorded and published pre-war Modzitz songs and Taub's post-war compositions via his own label, Neginah, and composed hundreds of Modzitz-style niggunim and 'operas' that became central to the tradition.