Jewish records - anything with Jewish content - should be sent to Florida Atlantic University's Judaica Music Archives, which began life as the "Judaica Music Rescue Project" in 2002 with some 1,000 recordings. Nathan Tinanoff was and still is the director.
http://faujsa.fau.edu/ Currently, it has some 60,000 recordings and is part of the newly created FAU Library's Sound Archives (LSA) which also houses major collections of historic 78-rpm records and jazz recordings (in conjunction with FAU's Music Department). It receives donations from individuals and institutions - some 10,000 per year. About 12 major institutions are involved in the JGA-Research Station. Also making significant donations to the preservation effort include Baltimore Hebrew University, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies (Chicago), and University of Central Florida (Orlando). The National Yiddish Book Center has also been involved in the development of the JSA. "The primary mission of the Judaica Sound Archives at FAU Libraries is to collect, preserve, and digitize Judaica sound recordings; to create educational programs highlighting the contents of this rich cultural legacy; and to encourage the use of this unique scholarly resource by students, scholars and the general public." Contact director Nathan Tinanoff to ask about their interest in what you might have. FAU's archive is amazing, digitized and growing all the time. Items that may have been trashed are now accessible to researchers. The JSA website is http://jsa.fau.edu/ and its blog is http://faujsa.fau.edu/blog/. The LINKS tab offers more information and useful sites, including Sephardic music. Among my personal finds: Several early 1900s recordings made by my great-great-uncle Hazzan Avram Jassen (variously listed as A. Yssen or Avraham or Abraham Jassen), a wunderkind chazzan from Belarus. In New York, he had a Brooklyn congregation and also sung at the Met. With best wishes Schelly Talalay Dardashti Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com [email protected] --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
