Sunday Feature: The Black Cantor

Maria Margaronis presents the remarkable story of African-American tenor Thomas La Rue Jones, who sang Jewish music in the early decades of the 20th century. Famed for his soulful voice and perfect Yiddish pronunciation, he performed in synagogues and theatres across the eastern United States and toured Germany, Poland and Palestine, but after his death in 1954, LaRue Jones disappeared from memory, leaving behind only one recording, made in 1923