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Yiddish-American |
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| Sheet music, primarily of American imprint, dating from the works of Abraham Goldfaden in the 1880s to works about the founding of Israel in the late 1940s. Much of the music relates to the Yiddish language musical theatre in New York through the 1920s, but there are also sections of cantorial music, folk song, art song, and general popular music. Some is of European imprint, and some music is in English but reference the Jewish immigrant experience of the period (an example is Marry a Yiddisher Boy).
The pre-1923 portion of the collection has been digitized and is available on the Yiddish American Sheet Music web site in the Library's Center for Digital Initiatives. See also the online exhibition Yiddish Sheet Music from the Collections of Brown University Library for more examples and text. |
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| Number of Boxes: 22 | |
| Number of Items: 2000 approximately | |
| Filed by: composer | |
| Date Range: 1880s-1940s | |
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| Broadway, Movies, TV | Russian and Ukranian | A. Teres | |
| Contact: hay@brown.edu | |