In 1975, Jacob Schacter recorded his last broadcast that aired Sundays in Miami. He had a weekly Yiddish radio show and just three weeks after he retired he died. Yet he lives on in all the tapes and records of his broadcasts that his daughter Milly Nyman recently donated to FAU’s Judaica Music Rescue Project.

The Rescue Project also received recordings from David Weintraub, the director for the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture in Coral Gables. In all, FAU received nearly six hundred 78 rpm (revolutions per minute) phonograph recordings and several LPs (long-playing phonograph records). Many of the recordings are from the Golden Age of Jewish Music, which ran from 1902 until1955. More than one hundred of the 78’s were completely new to FAU, which houses one of the largest collections in the world.

For the past two years, the Judaica Music Rescue Project has been seeking Jewish phonograph recordings. In addition to 78’s, they’ve widened their scope to 45 rpm, LPs, tapes and sheet music from the Golden Age of Jewish Music. They hope to preserve as many of these historically and musically valuable works as possible.

For more information, visit www.fau.edu/jewishmusic.