Judith Wachs

Judith Wachs (February 24, 1938 – October 9, 2008) was an American musician and singer who promoted Sephardic music through her musical group, Voice of the Turtle, of which she was the artistic director.

Early life Wachs was born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn and Queens. She attended Queens College (part of the City University of New York), and played on the school's tennis team. She later attended Columbia University, where she wrote a thesis on women's antiwar poetry for her master's degree in English literature.

Death Wachs died at age 70 on October 9, 2008, of cancer in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, having been diagnosed with the disease a year earlier.