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Archive Watch: Cantors and Klezmer Go Digital
By admin | October 27, 2009
Archive Watch: Cantors and Klezmer Go Digital
Between the early 1990s and 2002, Florida Atlantic University’s Wimberly Library acquired about a thousand recordings of Jewish music. In 2002 that collection became the foundation for the Judaica Music Rescue Project, founded by Nathan Tinanoff, with the goal of creating a central repository for Judaic sound recordings. In 2005 the project was renamed the Judaica Sound Archives, with Mr. Tinanoff as director. It now contains about 58,000
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