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Article: Judy Frankel: 1942-2008.(LAST CHORUS)(Obituary)
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- June 22, 2008
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Like so many other people in and beyond the Jewish music world, I was astonished and deeply saddened to learn of the death of Judy Frankel, on March 20, 2008, at age 65, of cancer. She left no immediate family, but many close and loving friends. Always gentle, gracious and discreet, she had not told many people besides her closest friends about her illness.
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Judy was one of the first (and, regrettably, one of the few) non-Sephardic performers of Ladino songs who learned them directly from Sephardic people. The Sephardic women she learned from and became close to in local communities welcomed her as "Sephardic by choice," and speak ...