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Biographical Note
Herbert Halpert was born in New York City, August 23, 1911. He studied folklore and anthropology for his M.A. from Columbia University. During the New Deal he recorded extensive collections of folk music, songs, and tales in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and across the South for the Federal Theatre Project, the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Projects Administration (WPA), and the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1942. He founded the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA), and taught at the University for many years. Halpert died December 29, 2000.