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EBay find leads to klezmer CD

By Elise Kigner Advocate Staff
Browsing eBay five years ago, Sherry Mayrent of Watertown did a search of Yiddish and saw a listing of 100 Jewish 78s from the collection of a cantor who had recently died. With a click of the mouse she bought all the recordings for $40. She soon got in touch with someone else who sold her 200 discs of klezmer recordings.

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