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  • ...jlp>[https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/sam-costa "Sam Costa", ''Jewish Lives Project'']. Retrieved 16 March 2021</ref> * Obituary, ''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', 2 October 1981
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  • ...s raised as an [[Orthodox Jew|Orthodox Jew]] and attended the South London Jewish School (1924–30), before entering show business at the age of twelve, whe ...ington.com/] {{dead link|date=July 2020}}</ref> and was one of the backing singers in the [[BBC]] show ''[[Strictly Come Dancing|Strictly Come Dancing]]''.<re
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  • ...ssia|Russian-Jewish]] father and an [[History of the Jews in Ireland|Irish-Jewish]] mother; he once claimed he was the only [[Jews|Jew]] ever born in Larne. ...com/news/uk-news/actor-harry-towb-dies Actor Harry Towb dies] from ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]''</ref>
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  • ...> in [[w:Whitechapel|Whitechapel]], London, of Russian-Romanian [[w:Jewish|Jewish]] descent.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ar Although Jewish, she attended [[St Joseph's College, Reading|St Joseph's Convent School]] i
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  • [[Category:Singers from London]] [[Category:English male singers]]
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  • Born in [[Bournemouth]], [[Hampshire]], England,<ref name="Dead"/> into a Jewish family; his father was a tailor from [[Poland]], and his mother had emigrat ...n BBC Show Band.<ref name="Times2004" /> An arranger for visiting American singers such as [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Frank Sinatra]], he wrote jingles for com
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  • ...dward Touchinsky in [[Holborn|Holborn]], London, to [[Polish Jewish|Polish Jewish]] parents.<ref name=times>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obit [[Category:20th-century British male singers]]
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  • ...gh his pop songwriting, penning numerous hits for the stable of young male singers promoted by artist manager and music publisher [[Larry Parnes]]. Bart's pop ...5–1976, but it was not staged until 2021 in a virtual performance of the [[Jewish Music Institute]] featuring [[Maureen Lipman]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thomas|
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  • ...'s side, she was descended from [[Solomon Sulzer]], a synagogue cantor and Jewish liturgical composer in Vienna. James felt that religion was something child [[Category:English people of Jewish descent]]
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  • Lee was born on 11 August 1916 to a [[Jewish]] family in [[The Gorbals]], [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]].<ref name=theo>{{Cit [[Category:20th-century Scottish male singers]]
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  • ...May 2003 |access-date=10 May 2019 |quote=Me mam was from Germany. She was Jewish. I think most of her family got killed off in the Holocaust.}}{{subscriptio [[Category:English male singers]]
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  • ...sbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> His mother was [[Jewish]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/06/guardia [[Category:English jazz singers]]
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  • ...bert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] after professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by [[Elizabeth Taylor]]. It was a huge success.<ref> [[Category:20th-century English male singers]]
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  • ..., despite the whimsy, it was clear that the cast members were very capable singers. ...ayed by Brooke-Taylor, trying to get Bill Oddie, playing a stereotypically Jewish-sounding music publisher, to market the tune. After hearing the tune, Oddie
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