On Sunday, December 25, 2011, the Yiddish singer Adrienne Cooper passed away in a Manhattan hospital after battling cancer. She was 65. Cooper played a pivotal role in the revival of klezmer music and Yiddish culture, helping to nurture an entire generation of Yiddish singers and musicians. She not only performed and recorded Yiddish music but held key jobs at such Jewish communal and scholarly institutions …
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:03PM on December 30, 2011