Join YIVO Sound Archivist Lorin Sklamberg for a look at the holdings of one of the world’s largest repositories of audio materials pertaining to the Ashkenazic experience. Talk will feature examples from the dawn of the commercial recording industry through the present day: cantorial music, theater songs, comedy routines, Yiddish radio and, of course, klezmer. The talk will give insight into YIVO’s online collections of field recordings of Yiddish songs contained on its Ruth Rubin Legacy website and the recently digitized Yiddish Folksong Project.
