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Yiddish music

 Subject
Subject Source: Wikidata

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Eric Rau Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10550
Abstract

Cantorial records

Dates: [unknown]

Music (Vilna Archives)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 7
Abstract

The Music (Vilna Archives) collection comprises the music manuscripts of the Esther Rachel Kaminska Museum. This includes the instrument parts of various operettas, folk songs, and musical plays.

The Esther Rachel Kaminska Museum was established after the death of the artist in 1928 by her son-in-law Sigmund Turkow, and her daughter,Ida Kaminsky. Originally housed in the apartment of the deceasd in Warsaw, the Museum was transferred to the YIVO Institute in Vilna in 1927. In addition to the archives of the Kaminsky family, the Museum was augmented by music accessions of producer-playwright Nokhem Lipovsky, producer-director Elieser and Zina Rappel, and later by Norbert Glimer, M.L. Genfer, and others.

Dates: 1892-1938