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rare examples o f American Jewish music dating back to colonial
times. From Europe , the re are manuscripts and published mate
rials no longer available because o f the destruction which resulted
from the Holocaust. Some o f the material was once p a r t o f the
grea t synagogues o f Eastern Europe , while o th e r items were
products o f Jewish publishing houses in the time o f the Czars.
Included in the Mandell Collection are bound Jewish music man
uscripts from the estate o f composer, music collector, poet, and
artist, A rno Nadel, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943. More
recent times are represen ted by publications from such countries
as the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and the South American coun
tries. Also housed in the Schreiber Jewish Music Library is the
Kutler Jewish Instrumen tal Library, consisting o f both works by
Jewish composers and compositions with Jewish themes. A grant
from the Presser Foundation in 1978, has enabled the Music
Library to purchase microfilming equipment and to microfilm a
portion o f the collection. A comprehensive recording collection
o f 5,000 tapes and records is also housed in the Schreiber Jewish
Music Library. T he types o f music represen ted in the recording
collection include: Israeli music, ethno-musicological recordings,
dance music, spoken arts, Yiddish songs, folk music, hasidic
melodies, liturgical music, and musical theater recordings. An
annotated bibliography,
Rare Booksfrom theEric Mandell Collection,
p repa red by W arner S. Victor (Philadelphia, 1982), can be
obtained from the Tyson Music D epartment o f Gratz College.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
T he Chomsky Educational Resource Center (CERC) was estab
lished in 1978. Its purpose is to collect, catalog, and make
available, materials relating to professional Jewish education.
Acting as a clearinghouse for educational resources, the
Chomsky Center provides information for curriculum
development, lesson planning, methodology, and teacher-
training and research, for the Jewish education o f young people
and adults. Primarily serving principals and teachers o f syna
gogue and Jewish day schools, CERC also provides programm ing
information fo r communal agencies, camps, and secular institu
tions. By means o f an information retrieval system, consultation
services, pedagogic guides, reference files and catalogs, CERC
provides the educator with materials on the following topics: