Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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Brief Description: The collection consists primarily of published Jewish and Yiddish sheet music. Included are choral and orchestral arrangements, and some manuscripts of Jewish liturgical music.  Miscellaneous music catalogs.  Slides and text of a Bobover Purim play.  Slides of the wedding of Rabbi Ben-Zion Halberstam in Bobowa, Poland, in 1931.  Manuscripts of papers submitted for courses in Jewish folkore, especially relating to Orthodox and Hasidic communities in Brooklyn.
Held at:
YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 683/RG 683
Created by: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 8 series: I) Published Yiddish Sheet Music (folders 1-47); II) Published Choral & Instrumental Music (48-54); III) Published Hebrew & Liturgical Music (55-76); IV) Israeli Dance Music (77); V) Music Manuscripts (78-85); VI) Textual Materials (86-94); VII) Record Catalogs (95-100); VIII) Miscellanea (101-107)
Subject Index
Customs, Jewish
Folklore and Ethnography
Hasidism
Music
Poland
Religious Life
Scholarship
United States
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Collection
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/14 ; 1999/03/24 ; GMB
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