Overview
- Description
- Contains a copy of the typed manuscript of the book "Purimshpili" with author' handwritten remarks and the Jewish folk musical and theatrical performances (Akhvesharoshshil) with the text and musical scores. Also contains copies of the handwritten musical scores (volume 3, part 1 & 2) from the Moisey Beregovskiy monograph "Jewish Musical Folklore."
- Date
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inclusive:
1930-1960
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Moisey Beregovsky
- Biography
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Moisey Beregovsky (1892-1961) was one the most leading researchers of the Jewish musical heritage, prominent Jewish musicologist, editor of the five-volume collection "The Jewish Musical Folklore", professor of Kiev Conservatory. During his folklore expeditions, he recorded remnants of the Yiddish songs of the last inhabitants of what was once the shtetlakh of the Pale of Settlement, as well as new melodies of the Jewish "workers and peasants", voices of prominent figuresof the Jewish culture as Solomon Mikhoels and Mikhail Gnessin
Physical Details
- Extent
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19 microfiche.
- Extent
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9 folders
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in the following order: Rg-31.036*01 (Folder 1); Rg-31.036*02 (Folder 2); Rg-31.036*03 (Folder 3); Rg-31.036*04 (Folder 4); Rg-31.036*05 (Folder 5); Rg-31.036*06 (Folder 6); Rg-31.036*07 (Folder 7); Rg-31.036*08 (Folder 8); Rg-31.03609 (Folder 9)
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication by a third party requires a formal approval of the Judaica Institute in Kiev, Ukraine. Publication requires a mandatory citation of the original source.
- Copyright Holder
- Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Beregovskiĭ, M. (Moiseĭ), 1892-1961.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photocopied collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in June 2005.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-19 14:16:08
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517528
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