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Series 7: "The Stations that Spoke Your Language": Yiddish-American Radio 1925-1955
Project proposal documentation and correspondence.
BOX-FOLDER 23/1-4 Funding and support (4 folders), circa 1991-1995
Application made by Sapoznik and Andy Lanset to Corporation for Public Broadcasting for funding, plus the project and budget summary, correspondence, and related documentation. Includes documentation regarding efforts to have the results of the project broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR) and other efforts to gain funding and support.
BOX-FOLDER 23/5 Project treatment
An extensive description of the projected one-hour documentary. Typed document.
BOX-FOLDER 23/6 NEH grant proposal: first draft (version 1), circa 1990s
Typed document, with handwritten notes in blue ink; accompanied by a few photocopies of music, photos, and other documentation.
BOX-FOLDER 23/7 NEH grant proposal: first draft (version 2), circa 1990s
Typed document, with handwritten notes in red ink; accompanied by a few photocopies of music, photos, and other documentation.
Series 8: Sound recordings
Documentation includes original materials and photocopies, as well as faxes and ditto copies. If no date is given then the information was not available.
Subseries A: Sound discs
Numbering for discs begins with SR0001. See Appendix A for a partial list of items. The sound discs were received at AFC in approximate numerical order (when there was a YIVO number). The processor organized the discs by program (if there were three or more items per program), by purpose (discs with the Kole Recording label were compiled from various recordings for convenient playback on the radio), by the type of program (a designation received from the donor; used here when a program title was not known), and the remaining discs were grouped together in alphabetical order.
The YIVO number indicates a disc that was formerly in the custody of YIVO (Yiddish Institute of Yiddish Research), during the time when Henry Sapoznik was employed there, and had donated the discs to the Institute. When he left his position there, he was allowed to take the discs with him. The so-called "catalog number" reflects Sapoznik's work to continue cataloging the discs, using YIVO's numbering system. The "ID number on the sleeve" was the number written on the disc sleeve in which the discs were received at AFC. The number sometimes matches the YIVO number, sometimes the catalog number, and sometimes is different from both.
Content on the discs is sometimes listed as separated by numbers (e.g., 1, 2, 3, etc.). This reflects the information on disc labels or from the donor's original inventory. For the Kole Recording subseries numbers indicate cuts. For other discs the numbers may indicate either cuts or multiple selections within a longer cut.
American Jewish Hour: It Happened This Week
See Appendix A, pages 1-5.
American Jewish Hour: Yiddish Melodies In Swing; American Jewish Hour: Yiddish Swing Festival
See Appendix A, pages 6-66.
Bei Tate Mames Tish (Round the Family Table)
See Appendix A, pages 67-79.
Radio programs sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture
See Appendix A, pages 80-85.
Dreams and Deeds
See Appendix A, pages 86-88.
Forward Hour
See Appendix A, pages 89-107.
The Golden Door
See Appendix A, pages 108-125.
Hammer's Beverage Program: The Happy Twins
See Appendix A, pages 126-133.
Radio programs sponsored by HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
See Appendix A, pages 134-138.
Jewish American Board of Peace and Justice
See Appendix A, pages 139-148.
Mentshn un oygn(Men Without Eyes)
See Appendix A, pages 149-161.
Music by New Americans
See Appendix A, pages 162-169.
The Music Store
See Appendix A, pages 170-173.
News of The Week In Review
See Appendix A, pages 174-182.
Our New Neighbors
See Appendix A, pages 183-197.
Quiz Master: What Do You Know?
See Appendix A, pages 198-202.
Reunion
See Appendix A, pages 203-211.
Spies
See Appendix A, pages 212-230.
The Story of General Gershelman
See Appendix A, pages 231-236.
The United Nations Today
See Appendix A, pages 237-240.
Zion Dov Ber Torah Fund fundraising program and other programs with Esther Leibowitz
See Appendix A, pages 241-264.
Commercials and promotional programs
See Appendix A, pages 265-307.
Kole Recording
According to the donor, these discs are a "combination of radio excerpts (Shikoff, Secunda, etc) and dubs of commercial 78s (Jolson, Mickey Katz, etc.), Yiddish theater, novelty, and cantorial" recordings. See Appendix A, pages 308-367.
Subseries B: Sound reels
Numbering begins with SR2000. Preservation reels received from the donor. ID numbers are YIVO numbers or another system, and are concorded in the sound disc inventory. See Appendix B for a list of items.
Transfers of discs with YIVO numbers
See Appendix B, pages 1-12.
Series 9: Photographic materials
Documentation includes original materials and photocopies, as well as faxes and ditto copies. If no date is given then the information was not available.
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 Claire Barry, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 5 in. x 4 1/2 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH001
The photo is a copy of an earlier photo, which had a small closed tear.
BOX-FOLDER 24/2 Dick Defreitas, circa 1940
1 photograph : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH002
Relocated from box-folder 18/5.
BOX-FOLDER 24/3 Ben Gailling, circa 1989
1 photograph : black and white ; 5 in. x 7 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH003
Photographer: Albert J. Winn; photo copyright 1989.
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 Miriam Grossman, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 7 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH004
Original photo, with a small chip to the top edge, and other wear from handling.
BOX-FOLDER 24/5 Aaron Hantin, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH005
Original photo. Relocated from materials now housed in box-folder 12/13-14.
BOX-FOLDER 24/6 Samuel Kaplan, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH006
Relocated from box-folder 13/2.
BOX-FOLDER 24/7 Samuel P. Mogelewsky, undated
5 photographs : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller; 1 photograph : color, photocopy ; 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH007-PH010
There are two copies each of PH007 and PH008. The photocopy was relocated from box-folder 13/4.
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 Freydele Oysher, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH011
Relocated from box-folder 18/23.
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 Victor Packer, undated
6 photographs : black and white ; 7 in. x 5 in. or smaller; 1 image : reproduction ; 4 3/4 in. x 9 1/2 in.
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH012-PH018
PH012-PH014 are from a live broadcast of Frages af der Luft (Questions in the Air), a Jewish quiz show featuring Victor Packer. PH014 is a version of PH013. PH017 is a photographic postcard. PH018 is a photo reproduced on paper, on a cardboard mount. Relocated from box-folder 13/5.
BOX-FOLDER 24/10 Vera Rosanko, 1937; undated
14 photographs : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH019-PH026
Two copies of PH019, three copies of PH020, two copies of PH021, and three copies of PH022. PH023 (dated March 7, 1937, and possibly the original photograph) and PH024 are similar. PH025 (dated September 13, 1933?) and PH026 were taken on the same day. Relocated from box-folder 13/7.
BOX-FOLDER 24/11 Zvee Scooler, undated
11 photographs : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller; 3 photographs : color, 3 1/2 in. x 5 in.
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH027-PH040
BOX-FOLDER 24/12 Betty Simonoff, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH041
Autographed by Simonoff.
BOX-FOLDER 24/13 Baruch Charney Vladeck, undated
3 photographs : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH042-PH044
Relocated from box-folder 13/10
BOX-FOLDER 24/14 Wolf Younin, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH045
BOX-FOLDER 24/15 Female radio performer, undated
1 photograph : black and white ; 8 in. x 10 in. or smaller
Item_ID: AFC 2010/003: PH046
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