Manuscript from Lithuania

[Alex Lubet <lubet001...>]

Khaverim,

A Twin Cities woman approached me this weekend about a very old manuscript 
in her possession.  It belonged to her grandfather, a cantor in 
Lithuania.  It's quite long, beautifully written in violet ink, and much of 
it is still readable.  Other than that it appears to be in an Eastern 
European choral style, some of it into three parts, for a cantor and two 
assistants, there's little else I can determine, including whether it was 
composed by this gentleman himself or merely copied from someone else's 
work.  This woman and her husband are also interested in knowing whether 
this manuscript might be of value to a collection somewhere, where it might 
be displayed.

This is beyond my areas of expertise.  Is there someone out there who might 
be willing to look at a few photocopied pages and see if a more in-depth 
identification might be made and/or might know whether a Jewish Museum 
could make use of this manuscript?  This woman and her husband are lovely 
people whom I would like to help and who knows?  We might all learn something.

Shevua Tov,


Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
100 Ferguson Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624-7840 (o)
612 699-1097 (h)
612 624-8001  ATTN:  Alex Lubet (FAX)

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