We are thrilled to announce that outtakes and recorded audio content from the Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials, a collection documenting the nearly extinct musical and communal traditions of several non-Western Jewish cultures that have survived over the last 2,000 years in India, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Armenia, and other regions in the Middle East and India, have been digitized. The films and audio, recorded from 1960 to 1989 during the making of her ethnographic documentaries, are a treasure-trove of unused footage shedding light on the religious ceremonies and traditions of vanishing cultures-such as those of the Jews of Cochin and B'nai-Israel Jews of India, Yemenite Jews, and the nearly extinct Samaritans of Israel-all before dispersal from their native lands.
Access to the digital files are through the library's catalog<https://primo-tc-na01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?sortby=rank&vid=JTS&lang=en_US> or through the digital collections site<https://digitalcollections.jtsa.edu/islandora/object/jts%3A617605>. Digitization was funded through the Recordings at Risk program at CLIR. We are grateful to them for their support. For further information, please feel free to contact the Library.<mailto:libr...@jtsa.edu> [JTS Logo for Signature] Naomi M. Steinberger, Director of Library Services The Jewish Theological Seminary 212-678-8982 www.jtsa.edu To inspire the Jewish future by sparking discovery of our past
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