The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

The Generations of Israel


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Pioneers of a New Society: From 1882 to the Balfour Delclaration; Prologue spoken by David Ben-Gurion
Composer(s) : N/A
2 - The Growth of the Land/Holocaust in Europe: From 1920 to World War II
Composer(s) : N/A
3 - The State is Born: From 1945 to 1948
Composer(s) : N/A
4 - Israel: From 1948 to 1968; Epilogue spoken by Levi Eshkol
Composer(s) : N/A