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The Association for Recorded Sound Collections presents the following program from its 2019 ARSC Conference in Portland, Oregon on May 11, 2019:

SURVEYING ARCHIVAL YIDDISH AUDIO COLLECTIONS: A TREASURE OF YIDDISH SONGS AND STORIES
presented by Maya Lerman, Library of Congress

The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States brought a Yiddish culture that had developed over hundreds of years. As these immigrants assimilated into the broader American culture, much of Yiddish culture was lost, but much was retained in the form of Yiddish American music, theater, film, and literature.

These cultural products comprise an important piece of American folklife and tell stories of experiences in Eastern Europe and immigrant experiences in the United States. Scores of collections have emerged that include oral histories by folklorists and recordings of Yiddish songs.

In this presentation, I will survey the landscape of archives and institutions across the United States that preserve and provide access to music and spoken word collections of Yiddish speaking communities. Then I will describe how the American Folklife Center’s Yiddish collections offer unique contributions to Yiddish studies.

The Ruth Rubin, Ben Stonehill, and Henry Sapoznik collections, as well as the recently acquired Michael Alpert collection, represent a range of perspectives on Yiddish life in the United States. The Yiddish radio, theater, music, and oral histories in these collections provide distinctive contributions to the scope of Yiddish collections and scholarship.

My presentation will also examine a range of research questions that musicologists and other scholars may want to pursue in Yiddish collections of sound recordings within and outside the American Folklife Center.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (www.arsc-audio.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.

Videographers: Michael and Leah Biel
Editor: Amanda McCabe (https://www.hi-5living.com/)