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Sharing with you life stories of composers, performers and scholars of Jewish music.

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Eli Yafe

Eli Jaffe

Israeli conductor
1953-
Flory Jagoda

Flory Jagoda

Guitarist, Composer & singer of Judeo-Spanish songs
1923- 2021
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Israel Meyer Japhet

Composer & teacher
1818-1892
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Pinhas Jassinowsky

Cantor & composer
1886-1954
Tzipora Jochsberger

Tzipora Jochsberger

American-Israeli composer, musicologist and educator
1920-2017
Shmerke Kaczerginski

Shmerke Kaczerginski

Poet, folkorist & partisan in the Vilna ghetto
1908-1954
Sylvan Sholom Kalib

Sylvan Sholom Kalib

Musicologist, composer, cantor, choirmaster
1929-2025
Bertha Kalish

Bertha Kalish

Yiddish theater actress & singer
1872/4-1939
Ida Kaminska

Ida Kaminska

Yiddish theater actress
1899-1980
Esther Rokhl Kaminska

Esther Rokhl Kaminska

Yiddish theater actress
1870-1925
Joseph Kaminski

Joseph Kaminski

Violinist & composer
1903-1972
Harry Kandel

Harry Kandel

Klezmer clarinetist & bandleader
1885-1943

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