Oral history interview with Flory Jagoda

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Oral history interview with Flory Jagoda

2004

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514872

Flory Jagoda discusses growing up in Yugoslavia; getting married in Italy in 1945; the concept of freedom as her principle reason for immigrating to the United States in 1946; her life in Youngstown, OH and Dayton, OH before moving to Washington, DC; her four children and six grandchildren; losing contact with her family and friends in Yugoslavia after it became a communist country; her sympathies with the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s; traveling and performing with her children; writing nineteen songs and continuing to perform in many venues; starting a Ladino singing group in Washington, DC; how her apprentices will continue her work in music; and her belief that music has been the foundation of her life.

2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

eng, Latn

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Jagoda, Flory, 1923-2021

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Flory Jagoda was a Bosnian-born musician who brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American audiences through performances and recordings. After surviving an internment camp during the Holocaust, Mrs. Jagoda married an American soldier, Harry Jagoda, and settled in Northern Virginia in the 1940s. She is best known for her original Hanukkah song, “Ocho Kandelikas” (“Eight Little Candles”)....