Claire barry biography
Claire Barry, Half of Yiddish Singing Duo, Dies at 94.
The Barry Sisters
American jazz duo
For other uses, see The Barry Sisters (disambiguation).
Minnie Bagelman (April 6, 1923[1] – October 31, 1976) and Clara Bagelman (October 17, 1920 – November 22, 2014),[2] best known under the stage names Merna and Claire Barry, were popular American Yiddish and jazz entertainers from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
Claire barry biography
Early years
Minnie and Clara were born in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Herman and Ester, from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, respectively. Herman Bagelman was born in present-day Berdychiv, Ukraine.[3] Minnie and Clara also had two younger sisters, Celia and Julia.
When Minnie and Clara decided to entertain by singing in Yiddish, as The Bagelman Sisters, their father told them they would need to do it in the manner of the Old World and not with American accents.[4]
The young girls got their first break as singers on WLTH Radio's Uncle Norman sh