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Flory Jagoda, Keeper of Sephardic Music Tradition, Dies at 97

Flory Jagoda, Keeper of Sephardic Music Tradition, Dies at 97 A charismatic musician, she sang and wrote songs that linked her to Jewish ancestors who lived in Spain until their expulsion in 1492. Flory Jagoda, left, performing with Heather Spence in Potomac, Md., in 2012. She sang songs she knew from her childhood in the former Yugoslavia and wrote new ones in the Sephardic tradition.Credit.Dayna Smith/Getty Images Published March 14, 2021Updated March 15, 2021 To Flory Jagoda, the language, rhythms and joys of the Sephardic Jewish music she sang and wrote connected her to her beloved nona, her grandmother, who lived in the mountain village of Vlasenica in the former Yugoslavia.

Remembering Flory Jagoda, Who Preserved Sephardic Jewish Music And Language - NPR News

Image credit: Dayna Smith Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Singer, songwriter, guitarist and accordionist Flory Jagoda worked hard to preserve the music and language she inherited from her Sephardic Jewish ancestors in her adopted American home. Named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002, she died on Jan. 29 at age 97 in Alexandria, Va. at a long-term memory care facility, according to an obituary placed by her family.

Remembering Flory Jagoda, Who Preserved Sephardic Jewish Music And Language

Singer, songwriter, guitarist and accordionist Flory Jagoda worked hard to preserve the music and language she inherited from her Sephardic Jewish

Remembering Flory Jagoda, Who Preserved Sephardic Jewish Music And Language – Nation & World News