{"id":846,"date":"2010-03-15T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faujsa.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:49:50","slug":"faus-kultur-festival-highlights-the-work-of-jsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/events-general-interest\/faus-kultur-festival-highlights-the-work-of-jsa\/","title":{"rendered":"FAU&#8217;s Kultur Festival highlights the work of JSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between March 6 and 11, 2010 the Boca Raton campus of FAU became a celebration of Jewish music and culture. It was the FAU Library&#8217;s second Kultur Festival. Events ran the gamut from klezmer concerts to cultural diversity forums. Two of these events highlighted the work of the Judaica Sound Archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Man Who Spoke to God<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Tues., March 9 : Dr. Jerry Glantz <\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Glantz-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Glantz-book.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover of Jerry Glantz's book The Man Who Spoke to God\" class=\"wp-image-854\" title=\"Glantz book\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The voice of the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/leib-glantz\"><strong>Cantor Leib Glantz<\/strong> <\/a>was one of the first to be heard on the JSA website. The importance of his compositions, the beauty of his voice and his unique ability to create an other-worldly spiritual experience for his listeners propelled him to prominence during the first half of the 20th century, also known as &#8220;The Golden Age of Hazzanut.&#8221;\u00a0 We are exceptionally grateful to Dr. Jerry Glantz for allowing the JSA to showcase his fathers bountiful talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Glantz discussed his book, <em>The Man Who Spoke to God<\/em>,\u00a0 a biographical loving tribute to his father, explained his father&#8217;s innovations in the field, and shared his father&#8217;s voice with the audience through recorded pieces. Especially dramatic was Cantor Glatntz&#8217;s rendition of <a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/album\/1701\"><em><strong>Shema Yisrael<\/strong>.<\/em><\/a> Dr. Glantz told the audience that because his father believed in improvisation\u00a0the <em>Shema <\/em>was a new creation each time he sang it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the recordings by this great cantor are available on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/leib-glantz\">JSA website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yiddish Zingfest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Wed., March&nbsp;10 : Phyllis Berk<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Berk.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional photo for Phyllis Berk\" class=\"wp-image-1483\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There&#8217;s just something about Yiddishkeit that can fill you with a mixture of longing for days gone by, nostalgia, and concern about the future of Yiddish culture. When&nbsp;Jews immigrated to the USA from Eastern Europe, Yiddish was the&nbsp;language that&nbsp;they shared with each other. It was the language they spoke, read, wrote and sung. It was the language that expressed their struggles and their triumphs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The JSA is committed to collecting recordings that express the Yiddish culture through music and humor. It is only through phonograph recordings that future generations will be able to hear for themselves what Yiddish sounded like in the early 1900s.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JSA Participating Performer, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/artist\/8492\"><strong>Phyllis Berk<\/strong><\/a> did an amazing job of bringing back the &#8220;old days&#8221; in this performance.\u00a0Singing songs from her CD (Coming of Age) \u00a0like\u00a0<em>Shpilzhe Mir a Lidele, Unter Beymer, Grine Kuzine<\/em> and <em>Mein Shtetele Belz<\/em>, she not only entertained her large audience, she led them down memory lane and roused them to sing along as well.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are currently 167 <a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/asset\/search\/?ss=&amp;album_collection[]=4&amp;genre=&amp;language=467&amp;reclabel=\"><strong>Yiddish song albums <\/strong><\/a>on the JSA website that you can\u00a0listen to\u00a0at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between March 6 and 11, 2010 the Boca Raton campus of FAU became a celebration of Jewish music and culture. 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