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Archive: May 2016 (3 Posts)

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Sheet Music Spotlight: Jewish Immigrants in Yiddish popular music

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post from retired cataloger Sharon McKinley. May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Over three million Jews, mainly from Eastern Europe, flooded into the United States between 1880 and 1920. Like other large immigrant populations, they crowded into cities such as New York, living in often squalid conditions as they tried …

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European Month of Culture: Spotlight on Italy

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

Here’s a new blog by our colleague Jason Steinhauer about Elia Andrea Corazza’s research in the papers of Serge Diaghilev at the Library of Congress. This blog commemorates European Month of Culture, and is cross-posted from Insights, a blog about scholarly work at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Elia Andrea …

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European Month of Culture: Spotlight on Svetlana Kujumdzieva

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

This May, the Library of Congress is celebrating European Month of Culture in conjunction with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States and the diplomatic delegations of many European member states. Our colleagues at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress are featuring the work of scholars from EU …