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Rosenbloom (Aviva) collection on cantorial music
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  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Music Library
    Title: Aviva Rosenbloom collection on cantorial music
    Creator: Rosenbloom, Aviva
    Identifier/Call Number: 6231
    Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/8/resources/3097
    Physical Description: 1.72 Linear Feet 2 boxes
    Date (inclusive): 1923-2007
    Abstract: This small collection contains Jewish cantorial music dating from the 1920s to the 2000s collected by cantor Aviva Rosenbloom. Materials consist mainly of sheet music and Bar/Bat Mitzah booklets from the 1990s-2000s.
    Language of Material: English , Hebrew , Yiddish .

    Biographical / Historical

    Aviva Rosenbloom was cantor of the Temple Israel of Hollywood, California, from 1975 until becoming cantor emerita in 2008.

    Scope and Contents

    This small collection contains Jewish music dating from the 1920s to the 2000s collected by cantor Aviva Rosenbloom. Materials consist of published sheet music originals and 18 photocopied pieces with lyrics often in Yiddish or Hebrew (1920s-1980s), some Jewish music catalogs from the late 1980s, and Bar/Bat Mitzah booklets from the 1990s-2000s. A variety of composers and arrangers are represented by the sheet music including Abraham Ellstein, Lipa Feingold, Solomon Golub, Pinchos Jassinowsky, Henry Lefkowitch, and Solomon Secunda. There is also a Park Avenue Synagogue Musical T'Fillah Uk'Dushah booklet (2003). Box 2 contains two copies of sets of the first installment of music for Shabbat Yachad commissioned by the Cantors Assembly (2000).

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Music Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Music Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder no. or item name], Aviva Rosenbloom collection on cantorial music, Collection no. 6231, Music Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Nick Strimple, 2016 and 2023.

    Processing Information

    This collection is not fully processed.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Jews -- Music
    Music by Jewish composers
    Sheet music