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Children's songs and poetry are combined with Jewish holiday songs through the repertoire of Rachel Buchman. Her albums, workshops and concert performances have made her songs a staple of classrooms and nurseries around the globe and have received prestigious American Library Association, Parent's Choice and Oppenheimer Toy awards. Buchman's early plans to become an actress were shifted when she became a popular entertainer at children's parties in New York. Although she sang in a church choir and studied classical piano as a youngster, her direction was altered by a trip to Israel that she took as a college student. Meeting a cousin, who had been a Halocaust survivor, when she stopped in London on her way back to the United States, the experience sparked an interest in the Yiddish language. Returning to New York, she enrolled at Yivo University. During the years she spent at the school, she became increasingly interested in Yiddish theater and music. Buchman's interests in Yiddish...