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Jean Gornish

In each city, fan clubs threw lavish parties and helped fill theaters such as the 3,000-seat Orchestra Hall in Chicago or the Milwaukee Auditorium.

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In her field she has no competitor and must be termed the "Heifetz" among cantors.

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She understood what her audiences wanted, and regularly finished her concerts with a medley called “Shtetlakh” that included songs about Eastern European shtetls such as Zlatopol, Moliev, and Belz, concluding with the song “God Bless America.”

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