Sound Salon w/Miriam Isaacs, Madison, WI, 28 Mar 2017
Sound Salon: Miriam Isaacs in conversation with Henry Sapoznik about the Stonehill Collection of Yiddish Recordings
Tuesday, March 28, 2017. 7:00 - 9:00pm
126 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI
In 1948, amateur folklorist Ben Stonehill set out to capture the folk songs of Jewish refugees entering the U.S. from Eastern Europe following the war. Every week that summer, Stonehill lugged a bulky wire-recorder from his home in Queens to the Hotel Marseilles on Manhattan's Upper West Side, recording the songs of newly-arrived refugees. In all, he recorded some 1,054 titles which are fully digitized and now being translated by Miriam Isaacs through the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.
Co-sponsored by the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.
Free and open to the public.