JUDAICA SOUND ARCHIVES
For Your Listening Pleasure:
The
Judaica Sound Archives (JSA) at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, in Boca
Raton, Fl, provides a wonderful collection of digitized recordings from vintage
sound recordings.
Did
you enjoy the humor of George Jessel? Well, listen to the “20th
Century Yiddish Humor” https://rsa.fau.edu/album/41481
Like
some of the silly songs of the past? Then, listen to “That Pickle in the
Window” or "Wild Corsets” https://rsa.fau.edu/album/4192
Is
your heritage Romanian?—listen to “A Bauer in Feld—Roumanish Lied (A poyer in
feld)”; “Doina un Sirba” (notes in Yiddish & Romanian)—recorded in 1918 https://rsa.fau.edu/album/703 and “
Aaron Lebedeff Sings Rumania, Rumania & Other Yiddish Theatre
Favorites”
Is
Yiddish theater your “thing”?—enjoy “90 Minutes of the Finest Jewish
Entertainment”. https://rsa.fau.edu/album/38650
or “A Chasene in Shtetl-Oysgefirt
durkh Di 4 Burshteyns” https://rsa.fau.edu/album/43948 album information is at: https://rsa.fau.edu/mm/assets/albums/48/481fb78ac94b3a667b810299f1fc9e71.pdf
In
summary there is something for anyone and everyone:
“100+ Years of Zionism”
,”
20 Famous Chassidic Melodies”,
“50 Children’s Songs”,
“9 Cantorial Selections”, “A Chanukah
Adventure”,
“A
Gris Fun Neuer Russland”
“A
Happening in Central Park” (Barbra Streisand)
“A
Letter to Marc Chagall”
“ A
Khazendl Oyf Shabbos and Other Yiddish Folk Songs”
“A
Memorial to The Victims of War”
“A
Synagogue Service in the Warsaw Ghetto”
“A
Taste of Paradise” (Klezmer)
“A
Telephone Call From Kosygin to Nasser”
....and much more!!
From
Molly Picon to Al Jolson to Eddie Cantor—“and the beat goes on…”—explore the
site, page after page, of terrific recordings, and ENJOY!!
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