Jews -- Music

The collections contains two variously annotated typescripts of Eric Werner’s book ‘A voice still heard : the sacred songs of the Ashkenazic Jews’, New York, G. Schirmer, 1978. Also included are various related materials as well as the correspondence between Eric Werner and Fred Grubel at the Leo Baeck Institute.

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.

This collection includes personal and official documents of the Adolf Schwersenz family, including his professional work as a cantor, mainly during his time in Berlin. It contains sheet music used by Adolf Schwersenz, as well as newspaper clippings and letters.

This collection consists of publications of annual convention proceedings from 1948 to 1973, 1975-1977 and two songbooks from 1967 and some undated.

Book reviews; clippings; curriculum vitae, slides, manuscripts, musical scores, correspondence, etc.

The Frederick Lachmann collection includes fragmentary materials that allow us all but a glance into the life and professional activities of Frederick Lachmann and members of his family. The core of the collection consists of printed copies of articles that Frederick Lachmann wrote for Aufbau. Also included in the collection are correspondence, photographs, and writings.

Sephardic House was established in 1978 as a correction to the often-overlooked contributions of the Sephardic community to American-Jewish culture. The Records of Sephardic House documents the administrative, programming, and publishing activities of Sephardic House since its founding. Such documents include financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence, artist portfolios, press releases, photographs, slides, and much more.

The collection documents the work of Henry Besso and reflects various aspects of his professional life, personal research and writings in the field of Sephardic culture, Spanish language and linguistics, and Sephardic and Spanish history. Collection also documents Besso's involvement with Sephardic organizations and communities. Collection includes audio materials, brochures, booklets, clippings, conference procedures, correspondence, government publications, minutes, notes, photographs, printed matter, reports, speeches, and writings and translations by Henry Besso and others.

Typescripts and correspondence by Schönberg; 2 scrapbooks, one containing concert programs and reviews of Schönberg's works (1921-1948), the other containing articles by Schönberg, mostly on music and culture (1920-1938).

Organized under the auspices of the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Jewish Music Council provides cultural programming through music, music reviews, lectures, bibliographies, an annual Jewish Music Festival and Jewish Week and Month. The Council also creates a bridge between Israeli and American Jewish music. Within the collection are articles, lectures, bibliographies, recording reviews, minutes, Jewish Music Festival material, handbooks, activity and progress reports, promotional flyers, programming manuals (including a manual on Ernest Bloch's music), and a 1949 Jewish songster.

Correspondence with individuals including Salo Baron, Bernard Baruch, Sidor Belarsky, Ber Borochov, Judah Leob (Leib) Cahan, Jacob de Haas, Mendl Elkin, Ben Zion Goldberg, Alexander Harkavy, Ephim Jeshurin, Yudel Mark, Kalman Marmor, Henry Morgenthau, Melech Ravitch, Zalman Reisen, Edward Sapir, Max Weinreich, Uriel Weinreich, Yehoash. Correspondence with organizations. Family correspondence. Letters from former students. Biographical materials, such as curriculum vitae, autobiographical notes, I.D. cards, letters of recommendation. Financial records. Clippings of Joffe's publications, of articles about him. Reports, minutes, plans, memoranda and correspondence relating to the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language. Materials relating to the YIVO Institute. Notes of Executive Committee meetings. Notes on Board of Directors meetings. Materials of the Research and Training Division. Materials on YIVO Annual Conferences. Materials on the YIVO in Vilna. Materials relating to Joffe's courses and lectures: notes on Yiddish courses, Yiddish composition, phonetics, morphology, etymology. Materials relating to the following topics: dictionaries; Russian literature and linguistics; Old-Yiddish language and literature; the Bove-bukh by Elias Levita (Elia Bachur). Materials relating to music, musicians, Yiddish songs, music institutions, recordings. Folklore materials: folksongs, proverbs, anecdotes.

Photographs, mementos, and album recordings of the Kadimah Group of Hadassah, Central Chapter, Brooklyn Region, documenting their performances in Yiddish of Gilbert and Sullivan’s musicals, Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S. Pinafore.

Music manuscripts and publications of Weiner's works: cantatas, an opera, piano music, a ballet, orchestral scores, choral works, art songs, liturgical music. Musical settings by Weiner for poetry by Yiddish authors: A. Almi, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Peretz Hirschbein, H. Leivick, Itzik Manger, Kadia Molodowsky, I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Yehoash. Musical works by other composers including Joseph Achron, Ilya Aisberg, Simeon Bellison, Abraham Moshe Bernstein, Riva Boyarskaya, Israel Brandmann, Paul Dessau, Joel Engel, Jasha Fisherman (Jacques Fischermann), Mikhail Gnessin, A. Gumennik, S. Gurowitsch, Simon Katz, Zinovii Kompaneetz, Reuven Kosakoff, Alexander Krein, M. Milner, Aron M. Rothmuller, S. Sagranitschny, Lazare Saminsky, Ephraim Skliar, Maximilian Steinberg, Alexander Zhitomirsky. Program and reviews of concerts of the Workmen's Circle Chorus.

Correspondence, original musical works and arrangements by Leo Low, printed sheet music of compositions by Leo Low, personal documents. Correspondents include Samuel Alman, Israel Alter, Abraham M. Bernstein, Abraham W. Binder, Gershon Ephros, Michl Gelbart, Mordechai Herschman, Meyer Posner, Jacob Rapoport, Josef (Yosele) Rosenblatt, Salomon Rosowsky, Jacob Weinberg, Lazar Weiner, Chemjo Vinaver, Julius Wolfsohn, Stefan Wolpe. Compositions by Leo Low include liturgical works, Jewish holiday songs, folk songs. Arrangements and rearrangements include works by Samuel Alman, Platon Brounoff, Julius Chajes, Isaac Dunajevsky, Michl Gelbart, Solomon Golub, Moses Beer Korotiansky, Zavel Kwartin, Marc Lavry, Louis Lewandowski, Shalom Postolsky, Baruch Leib Rosowsky, Zeidel Rovner, M. Schneyer, Mark Warschawski, Leib Yampolsky, Mordechai Zeira. Poets whose works were set to music by Low include Hayyim Nahman Bialik, David Edelstadt, Szmerke Kaczerginski, Isaac Leib Peretz, Abraham Reisen, Morris Rosenfeld, Zalman Shneur.

Scripts of Gross's radio talks, commentaries, and other appearances. Clippings. Sound recordings of Jewish folk, theater, and cantorial music. Correspondence pertaining to the radio programs. Correspondence relating to the visit of the Soviet Jewish writers Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Feffer to the U.S. in 1943.

This collection pertains to the lives of Max and Eva (née Hausen) Feuermann, who were both exiled from their respective homes in Berlin in 1938. It contains extensive correspondence between Eva and her parents, who remained in Berlin, up until 1943, as well as documents relating to Max’s academic and professional life prior to exile. Half of the collection consists of materials of the Free Sons of Israel Benevolent Association, Liberty Lodge No. 192, a Jewish cultural association and burial society in New York; these records consist largely of cemetery plot deeds.

The items in this collection consist of synagogue music scores from Southwestern Germany, both cantor's manuals and choral music.

The collection consists of bound notebooks of liturgical music for cantor and choir, compiled or composed by Meyer Posner. There are also bound notebooks of Yiddish and other choral songs and notebooks of musical illustrations for his book on harmony. Liturgical music: works by about 50 composers, including Nissan Blumenthal, A. Dunayevsky, Eliezer Gorowitch, Louis Lewandowski, Pinchas Minkowsky, Samuel Naumbourg, David Nowakowski, Zeidel Rovner, Wolf Shestapol, Solomon Sulzer. Choral works in Yiddish include music by Platon Brounoff, Leo Low, Jacob Beimel.

Manuscripts of Gelbart's musical compositions. Clippings by and about Gelbart. Several plays for children. A children's operetta. Compositions for solo piano and for full orchestra. Arrangements of liturgical music for solo and choir. Lectures given by Gelbart.

The papers consist of manuscripts of liturgical music as well as Yiddish songs, Russian translations of operatic arias, and notes on music theory. Composers include A. Dunayevsky, Gedaliah Grossman, Borukh Konstantiner, Louis Lewandowski, Pinchas Minkowsky, Samuel Naumbourg, Zeydel Rovner, Wolf Shestapol, Nissan Spivak, Salomon Sulzer. There are also musical works by Handel, Anton Rubinstein, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Mozart.

The collection consists of published and unpublished works of Yiddish and Hebrew, art, popular, and theater music, Holocaust songs, liturgical and Hasidic music, and instrumental compositions. The collection is divided into the following series: *Sheet Music*. 1897-1969. Published popular, art and theater music, mainly of the United States. Composers and arrangers include Joseph Brody, Abraham Ellstein, Louis Friedsell, Abraham Goldfaden, Solomon Golub, Pinchas Jassinowski, H.A. Russotto, Peretz Sandler, Sholom Secunda, Solomon Shmulewitz-Small, Herman Wohl. *Choral Music*. 1909-1973. Yiddish and Hebrew folk and art songs, classical compositions. Composers and arrangers include Samuel Alman, Abraham Wolf Binder, Samuel Bugatch, Julius Chajes, Harry Coopersmith, Abraham Ellstein, Charles Davidson, Maurice Goldman, Vladimir Heifetz, Max Helfman, Pinchas Jassinowski, Mark Lavry, Henry Lefkowitch, Boris Levenson, Leo Low, Meyer Posner, Jacob Schaefer, Ephraim Shkliar, Lazar Weiner, Zavel Zilberts. *Composers and compilers*. 1846-1972. Yiddish and Hebrew folk, popular and art songs. Theater, liturgical and hasidic music. Music of the Holocaust. Composers, arrangers, and compilers include: Joseph Achron, Ilya Aisberg, Paul Ben Haim, Israel Brandmann, Samuel Bugatch, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Julius Chajes, Joel (Julius) Engel, Michl Gelbart, Mikhail Gnessin, Abraham Goldfaden, Solomon Golub, Vladimir Heifetz, I. Kaplan, Menahem Kipnis, S. Kisselgof, Henech Kon, H. Kopit, Alexander Krein, Paul Lamkoff, Boris Levenson, Pesach Lvov, Moses Milner, O. Potoker, Salomon Rosowsky, Aron Marko Rothmuller, Anton Rubinstein, Nathan Samaroff, Lazare Saminsky, Mordecai Sandberg, J. Schuman, Moshe Shalit, Harold Shapero, Ephraim Skliar, Ljubow Streicher, Joachim Stutschewsky, A. Veprik, Jacob Weinberg, Lazar Weiner, Leo Zeitlin, Alexander M. Zhitomirsky.

The collection is divided into 5 series: I) Personal Papers and General Correspondence (folders 1-5); II) Journalistic Articles (6-51b); III) Jewish Folklore (52-99); IV) Various Materials (100-105); V) Photographs (106-117).The collection includes Yiddish folkore materials, including notebooks of songs, folk plays, folktales, folk humor, anecdotes, proverbs. Clippings of Litwin's articles relating to various topics, including: Russia, 1917-1930; Palestine and Zionism; towns and cities in Europe; landsmanshaftn; Poale Zion activities, 1915-1928; Jewish occupations; colonization and farming; Jewish holidays; Yiddish theater; education. Poems by Litwin. Photographs of personalities, towns in Europe. Correspondence with Abraham Cahan, Saul Ginsburg, Abraham Liessin, Baal Makhshoves (Isidor Eliashev), Shmuel Niger, Zalman Reisen, Sholem Aleichem, Israel Zinberg. Family correspondence.

Recordings produced by the Greater Recording Company. Includes cantorial, Yiddish and Israeli folk and Yiddish theater music.

The collection consists primarily of published Jewish and Yiddish sheet music. Included are choral and orchestral arrangements, and some manuscripts of Jewish liturgical music. Miscellaneous music catalogs. Slides and text of a Bobover Purim play. Slides of the wedding of Rabbi Ben-Zion Halberstam in Bobowa, Poland, in 1931. Manuscripts of papers submitted for courses in Jewish folkore, especially relating to Orthodox and Hasidic communities in Brooklyn.

The collection consists of tape recordings, photographs, scrapbooks, sheet music and lyrics relating to the Stamblers' activities as collectors and record producers. Included are a series of unique field recordings of Hasidic, cantorial, folk, Sephardic and theater music. Hasidic groups recorded include Stoliner, Modzitzer, Gerer, Chabad, Vizhnitz, Bobov. Live recordings of orchestras at Jewish weddings. Photographs and other materials relating to cantors. Stills and biographical notes from the film The Voices of Israel, World's Greatest Cantors, produced by Judea Films, ca. 1931.

Photos, drawings. Miscellaneous materials relating to Charles Zunser and family.

The collection relates to Osofsky's field work for the JFMB and consists of approximately 100 cassettes of interviews and recorded songs, as well as slides, photographs, songsheets, scholarly papers, and administrative records.

The collection relates to Cogan's teaching career and includes such teaching materials as school plays, Purim plays, Yiddish songs and poems. Personal correspondence, clippings, autobiographical notes.

Clippings of articles about Zaludkowski's performances. Clippings and some typescripts of his articles on Jewish music. Posters. Zaludkowsky's musical works and arrangements of liturgical music and settings of Yiddish and Hebrew poetry. Compositions by Elias's father, Noah Zaludkowski.

Printed and manuscript sheet music including folksongs, oratorios, cantatas, liturgical music, choral works, dance music. Programs, clippings and photographs of Eugene Malek.