Remembering the Titanic

There are few stories which affect us as powerfully as the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
It is a story of arrogance, pomposity, and cruel disregard for human life.

There are few stories which affect us as powerfully as the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
It is a story of arrogance, pomposity, and cruel disregard for human life.

It was the “last box packed.” Now it was the last box to be unpacked. After going through 156 boxes of Cantorial, Yiddish and English-language recordings from the collection of Chicago record producer Barry Serota we stared at this box and knew that once it was opened our job of unpacking would be complete.
However, our work organizing, describing and investigating the music was just beginning!

I was listening to my local public radio station while I was driving to work the other day. Roger Bennett, co-author of And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Our Vinyl, was talking with Marco Werman about his attempt to save decades of American Jewish music from obscurity.
We, at the JSA, are very proud of our participation in helping Roger and his co-auther, Josh Kun to find materials that eventually found its way into their wonderful book.
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