Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

5/1/2000 - 4/30/2003

Funding Totals

$241,414.00 (approved)
$241,414.00 (awarded)


Reformatting Audiotapes of the Language and Culture of Ashkenazic Jewry

FAIN: PA-23436-00

Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)
Janet Elaine Gertz (Project Director: July 1999 to October 2003)

The preservation of 3,000 hours of endangered sound recordings of interviews conducted from 1959 to 1972 in hundreds of Jewish communities in North America, in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Israel.