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Jascha

American  
[yah-shuh] / ˈyɑ ʃə /

noun

  1. a male given name, Russian form of Jacob or James.


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Sinatra famously studied jazz and popular singers like Crosby and Billie Holiday and musicians like Tommy Dorsey as a young man, but also classical virtuosos like Jascha Heifetz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Chaplin was sharing a table with Russian aristocrats and violinist Jascha Heifetz and saw Julian and his buddies kick over a lamp and generally behave like ruffians.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Nothing seemed amiss when a car dropped Jascha Heifetz back at the King David Hotel on April 16, 1953, after a recital at Edison Hall in Jerusalem.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

That sentiment was echoed by Jascha Franklin-Hodge, chief of streets for the city of Boston who previously worked in Silicon Valley.

From The Verge • Sep. 12, 2022

Jascha Heifetz tried to recollect, which was natural, seeing that it must have been one long since overcome.

From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman