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Music by Jewish composers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Abraham Moshe Bernstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 36
Abstract

This collection contains papers of Abraham Moshe Bernstein, a renowned cantor, choir master, composer of Jewish liturgical and secular music, music teacher, musicologist, writer, and translator. The bulk of the materials consists of Bernstein’s liturgical compositions and arrangements in both published and manuscript form, as well as a substantial collection of manuscripts and published works by various composers and arrangers. The materials include Hasidic folk songs and melodies, religious songs, Jewish hymns, popular songs, children’s songs, operettas, liturgical pieces, and musical exercises for students; choral volumes and partbooks; unidentified and fragmented musical manuscripts; manuscripts of Bernstein’s own writings; personal correspondence; a photo of Bernstein on his deathbed; secular and religious songs, Sabbath hymns, Hasidic folk songs and melodies, assembled by Bernstein for the S. Ansky Jewish Historical Ethnographic Society in Vilna.

Dates: 1878-1936; Majority of material found within 1898-1931

Egon Klebe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3916
Abstract

The collection contains a biographical sketch of Dr. Egon Klebe and 24 of his musical compositions.

Dates: 1950-1967

Eric Rau Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10550
Abstract

Cantorial records

Dates: [unknown]