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Obit: Irene Heskes
- From: MaxwellSt <MaxwellSt...>
- Subject: Obit: Irene Heskes
- Date: Tue 19 Oct 1999 15.50 (GMT)
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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- Obit: Irene Heskes,
MaxwellSt