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Sharon Jan Bernstein (voice, piano) lived in New York, Jerusalem and Italy before returning home to the Bay Area. An intriguing new voice of Yiddish song, she has performed in Europe, Israel and the US, in venues including the Ancona Jewish Music Festival, RAI National Italian Radio, Habimah Theatre Jerusalem, Berkeley Jewish Music Festival, World Congress of Jewish Studies, Makor, Center for Jewish History, and the 92nd Street Y, often performing in a piano bar version, notably at the Yung YiDish club in Jerusalem. She has taught Yiddish song in Jerusalem, Vilna (as part of the Vilnius Summer Yiddish Program), and KlezCalifornia. Her repertoire comprises less known or never performed songs, such as those kept in the manuscripts of the Noy Collection (Jerusalem) or the new compositions of Beyle Schaechter Gottesman, organized according to subtle and captivating thematic threads. Her work has been featured on radio and TV in Israel, Italy and the US. Her "delightfully clear voice" (J. Pinnolis, jmwc.org) can be heard in Af Di Gasn Fun Der Shtot-On the streets of the city, a new collection of Yiddish songs written by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (2003), and she will soon be releasing her first solo album.