Ben Stonehill Yiddishist
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 2017
Material: Essay manuscript Dimension:
8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages
Creator: Lee (Lennox) Stonehill
Identifier: aql:33601 qmp-stonehill-lee-essay-01 qmp-stonehill-lee-essay-01.pdf
Description: Ben Stonehill Yiddishist - A short biography written by Lee Stonehill about his father. Ben Stonehill was born Ben Steinberg on August 20, 1906 in Suwalki, Poland, and came to NYC in 1929. He was a salesman and a "Yidishist" and in 1948 he took on a project on his own to record over a thousand songs from Holocaust survivors. He did not finish the project due an early death from cancer in 1965, but the collections has been donated to Library of Congress's American Folklife Center. The collection has been digitized by the Library and is now housed in the American Folklife Center, at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the YIVO Institute and Yad Vashem, and can be found here: https://ctmd.org/archive/collections/
Creator :
Lee (Lennox) Stonehill
Date :
2017
Summary/Description :
Ben Stonehill Yiddishist - A short biography written by Lee Stonehill about his father. Ben Stonehill was born Ben Steinberg on August 20, 1906 in Suwalki, Poland, and came to NYC in 1929. He was a salesman and a "Yidishist" and in 1948 he took on a project on his own to record over a thousand songs from Holocaust survivors. He did not finish the project due an early death from cancer in 1965, but the collections has been donated to Library of Congress's American Folklife Center. The collection has been digitized by the Library and is now housed in the American Folklife Center, at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the YIVO Institute and Yad Vashem, and can be found here: https://ctmd.org/archive/collections/
Subject :
Biography; Folk songs, Yiddish; Yiddish language; Holocaust survivors; Songs, Yiddish; Stonehill, Lee (Lennox); Stonehill, Ben
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Sunnyside, Queens, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Essay manuscript
Format :
Essay manuscript; 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages
Identifier :
aql:33601 qmp-stonehill-lee-essay-01 qmp-stonehill-lee-essay-01.pdf
Subject:
Biography; Folk songs, Yiddish; Yiddish language; Holocaust survivors; Songs, Yiddish; Stonehill, Lee (Lennox); Stonehill, Ben
Biography; Folk songs, Yiddish; Yiddish language; Holocaust survivors; Songs, Yiddish; Stonehill, Lee (Lennox); Stonehill, Ben
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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