Cochin - Ernakulam "Black" Jews [13] 1962 July

1). Cradle song / Abigail. -- 2). Song about Cheif of thieves / Abigail. -- 3). Talk. -- 4). Cradle song / Abigail. -- 5). Song of Cheif of thieves / Abigail (Malayalam). -- 6). Song in Malayalam / Abigail. -- 7). Love song in Hindustani / Avraham. -- 11). Love song in Hindustani / Abigail. -- 9). / Avraham. -- 10). Song about bad times / Abigail. -- 11). Sad song about medicine-man whose wife dies in childbirth while he attends another woman in childbirth. He takes his little son and rides away / Avraham. -- 12). Cradle song / Abigail. -- 13). Song of Chief of thieves. -- 14). Cradle song. Recordings of: Cochin - Msilath Zion, July 22nd 1962 ('Black" Jews). Abigail Pollack (14 yrs. old) + Avraham Pollack (36 yrs. old her father) 8 yrs in Israel. 14 recordings. [Folksongs, some in] Hindustani, Malayalam. Rerecorded from Kuschner. 2, copy B. Copy. 7 1/2 [ips]. Monophonic. 7" reel. [not full.] Digitized from tape reel, 7", 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, monaural. High Amount of Hiss on Tape; Program Distorted at Times; Leader added Digitizer also photographed the box information. The Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials processing project was supported by a Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through the Council on Library Resources (CLIR). Digitization funded by The National Library of Israel. Please cite as: The Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials, The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y., ARC.2008.03 (JSPEC_ 0127). Hebrew Johanna Spector Collection digitized 2015 pda NNJ Preservation Technologies, L.P.