Re: Obit: Irene Heskes

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

She also did some early work in Sephardic discography and was very involved 
in Jewish music libraries...

Joel

At 11:47 AM 10/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>



Joel Bresler
250 E. Emerson Rd.
Lexington, MA 02420 USA

Home:           781-862-2432
Home Office:    781-862-4104
FAX:            781-862-0498
Cell:           781-622-0309
Email:          jbresler (at) ma(dot)ultranet(dot)com

---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+