Obit: Irene Heskes

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NEW YORK (AP) - Irene Heskes, a historian and author who specialized in 
Jewish music died Thursday of aplastic anemia. She was 76.

Ms. Heskes worked as a researcher, writer and lecturer for the Theodor Herzl 
Institute of the Jewish Agency from 1964 to 1976. She also was the director 
of the National Jewish Music Council from 1968 to 1980 and was a consultant 
to the American Jewish Historical Society and to libraries and academic 
institutions.

In 1980, she founded the American Yiddish Theater Music Restoration and 
Revival Project, which assembled, catalogued and microfilmed a comprehensive 
collection of Yiddish theater music. The collection is now available for 
study at the Library of Congress.

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