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Discography of early European Jewish recordings

Joel Bresler reports on the Jewish-music mailing list:

I am pleased to relate that my colleague Michael Aylward has started to publish some of the results of his impressive seven-year effort to compile a discography of commercial European Jewish recordings on cylinders and 78s. His article (title above) appears in Vol. 16 of "Polin, Studies in Polish Jewry", Oxford and Portland, OR, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003.

He is covering traditional Jewish music, defined here as excluding performances in the classical tradition. So far, Michael has documented 5,500 recordings. It's well worth getting a copy of the article.

List members then came up with the following contact info: To get the volume of Polin look at the website of the publisher www.littman.co.uk, or, in the US, go through International Specialized Book Services (ISBS).

Itzik Gottesman then responds noting that there are several other interesting articles in the same journal:

Also of interest to our list in the recently published volume of Polin vol 16 in addition to Michael Aylward's important article are these articles:

  • Zev Feldman "Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia"
  • Ariela Krasny "The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk"
  • Nathan Gross "Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Caberet Song"
  • Bret Werb and Barbara Milewski "From 'Madagascar' to Sachsenhausen: Singin about race in a Nazi Camp"
  • Yaakov Mazor "The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations"
  • Alex Lubet "Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski's Yiddish Worldbeat in its Social-Musical Context"
  • Ruth Ellen Gruber "The Krakow Jewish Culture Festival"

List members then came up with the following contact info: To get the volume of Polin look at the website of the publisher www.littman.co.uk, or, in the US, go through International Specialized Book Services (ISBS).

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