independent views and unconventional private life, becoming an early media celebrity. She made over 160 recordings.

Life and career

Early life

She was born in 1880 in Chicago, the daughter of Rachel and David Goldberg, a Polish-born saloon keeper. She seems to have been given the traditional family name Rachel at birth but was known as Eleonora, or "Dora" as a nickname. She grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish household

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