Papers and music scores, ca. 1874-1979.

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Papers and music scores, ca. 1874-1979.

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The David J. Putterman Music Collection consists of cantorial music manuscripts from Russia, Europe and the United States, ca. 1874-19--; American synagogue music manuscripts, ca.1925-1968; and American archival material, ca.1920-1952. The Park Avenue Synagogue Music Collection consists of Putterman's papers, 1920-1979. A large portion of the papers show his organization of Park Avenue's annual Sabbath Eve contemporary music service, 1943-1976. There appears to be a complete set of scores for all these years. There is also correspondence with participating composers; promotional photos; and composer biographies. There are archival recordings of many of the annual services, 1956-1975. There are also archival sound disk recordings (78, 33 RPM) of Putterman's Jewish radio broadcasts, 1938-1950.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Park Avenue Synagogue (New York, N.Y.)

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Steinberg, Milton, 1903-1950

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Milton Steinberg, American author, philosopher, rabbi, teacher, and theologian, was born in Rochester, NY on November 24, 1903. His father Samuel was born in Seraye, Lithuania and educated at the yeshiva in Volozhin, Lithuania. His mother Fannie, nėe Sternberg, was born in Rochester, NY to a family that managed a boarding house. Milton had two sisters, Florence and Frieda. In 1919, the Steinberg family relocated to the Bronx so that his older sister Florence might pursue a singing c...

Putterman, David

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David J. Putterman was born in 1900 on an immigrant ship en route to New York City. As a boy he was alto soloist in the choirs of cantors Josef Rosenblatt, Gershon Sirota and Zeidel Rovner. During the nineteen-twenties Putterman recorded in Yiddish and Hebrew for the Victor, Brunswick and Vocalion labels. In 1933 both Putterman and Rabbi Milton Steinberg were offered to lead New York's Park Avenue Synagogue. By the time of Rabbi Steinberg's premature death in 1950, they had transformed the congr...

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Cantors Institute.

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