Eric Rau Collection
Synagogue Music and Yiddish Folksongs
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Image: The picture shows the Kol Nidre service near the town of Metz during the Franco-German War in a drawing by Hermann Junker.
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1 side of 1 sound disc; analog, 78 rpm.
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Image: The picture shows the Benediction of the Priests in a Portuguese synagogue in The Hague, Netherlands, as depicted in a drawing by Bernard Picart.
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1 side of 1 sound disc; analog, 78 rpm.
Eric Rau collection, AR 10550
This assembly of sound recordings combines traditional synagogue- and High Holidays music with Yiddish folksongs, all collected by Eric Rau (1928-2013), a German born chemist and passionate activist for Jewish education.
Highlights:
Kol Nidre, sung by Chief Cantor Aron Weiss
“Oi a Mame”, sung by Salomon Stramer
Birchas Kohanim sung by Salome Pinkassowicz
“Amerika Ganew” (“Wie senen meine Kinder”) sung by Julius Guttmann