Eléonore Biezunski  - Archives In Focus

The Klezmer Institute

A conversation with Eléonore Biezunski presented by the Klezmer Institute.

<p>In his book A Time to Gather, Jason Lustig describes the creation of Jewish archives as constituting a “concrete attempt to hold tight to the past in times of fast and far-reaching change, and [they] manifest a broader sensibility of gathering together the scattered sources and resources of Jewish life by bringing order to the past. In this series, we will meet archivists and scholars who are deeply connected to archives that were wellsprings for the klezmer revival, and which continue to inform new generations of practitioners in Ashkenazic expressive culture. </p><p>Eléonore Biezunski serves as Sound Archivist in the The Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of YIVO Recorded Sound, where she has coordinated the Ruth Rubin Legacy online exhibition (exhibitions.yivo.org/RuthRubin). She has a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and holds a M.A. in Comparative Urban Geography from University of Paris X Nanterre (France). She has published several book chapters and articles on the history of Yiddish music and culture, and co-edited in 2015 a 6 CDs-set reissue of historical recordings of the Elesdisc Label (1948-1953), as the Assistant to the Director of the European Institute for Jewish Music in Paris (iemj.org). She is also a member of the Klezmer Institute‘s KMDMP and Klezmer Archive Project. As a singer and violinist, she has founded and led several projects and collaborated with a large number of well-known performers of Jewish music here and abroad. She won a Bubbe Awards in 2021 for her song “Tshemodan” in the category Best New Yiddish Song and is a recipient of a NYSCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship. Her recordings include Yerushe (IEMJ, 2016), drawing from Yiddish music archives such as the Ruth Rubin’s, Beregovski’s and Kisselgof’s collections and Zol zayn (2014).</p>

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