Jacob Hoffman (musician)

Jacob "Jakie" Hoffman (Yiddish: יעקב האָפמאַן, c. 1897–1974) was a Russian-born American Klezmer and orchestral musician, recording artist, and Xylophone player.

Hoffman was born in the late 1890s in Bohopil (Bogopol), Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (today Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine).

[2][1] Jacob learned a broad klezmer and Hasidic music repertoire from his father, as did his brothers.

[2] During World War I he worked as a musician at the Arch Street Theatre; he also played xylophone on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit.

[6][7] After that his recording career seems to have ended, but he continued on as a popular musician in Philadelphia and on tour around the United States for the following decades.