| Jaime Bronsztein performing at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Jaime Bronsztein performing at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Still Image | Fiddlers
Musicians
Fieldwork
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Arts, Jewish
Klezmer music
Jewish Americans
Music performance
Performing arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t86-018 | Jacob Sheiniuk interview for the Miami-Dade Folk Arts Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Metalworking
Material culture
Figurines
Jewish Americans
Lithuanian Americans
Religious art
Decorative arts
Welders
Sculpture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jacob Sheiniuk interview for the Miami-Dade Folk Arts Survey
- Date
- 1985-08-16
- Description
- One reel-to-reel tape (copied onto C86-61). Interview with metal sculptor and wood carver Sheiniuk in is home. Originally from Lithuania, he discusses learning wood carving from his father; welding in the US; themes behind his sculpture; Biblical themes; inspirations; and exhibiting his art.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-017 | Nancy Greenberg interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Contracts
Marriage
Weddings
Jewish Americans
Jewish law
Religious art
Interviews
Oral narratives
Life histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Nancy Greenberg interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-08-22
- Description
- One reel-to-reel tape (Copied onto C86-60). Greenberg, a ketubah maker, describes the process of making a Jewish marriage contract art. Jewish marriage contract art is also known as katubut/katabbah/katubah. Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A ketubah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees the wife financial rights upon her husband's death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community. In the interview she discusses her education (Masters in Arts); her family history; history of ketubah; process for creating them; Jewish marriage rites; training she recieved; and contract styles.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-021 | Rina Kramer interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Life histories
Oral narratives
Food preparation
Kosher foods
Cooking
Jewish Americans
Ritual foods
Emigration
Religious holidays | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Rina Kramer interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-09-12
- Description
- One reel to reel, copied onto cassette tape C86-64. Interview conducted in Kramer's home. She discusses the role of cooking in a Sephardic Jewish home, various kosher foods, making meatballs and couscous, use of spices, the differences between Florida the Tunisian Sephardic community in Paris (where she grew up), catering for Miami's Jewish community, and foods associated with Jewish holidays.
- Collection
| Bar mitsvah ceremony | Bar mitsvah ceremony | Still Image | Fieldwork
Rites and ceremonies
Bar mitzvah
Jewish Americans
Religion
Judaism
Jews
Rites of passage | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bar mitsvah ceremony
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Five color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Bread at Paramount bakery | Bread at Paramount bakery | Still Image | Fieldwork
Merchants
Bread
Kosher food
Jews
Jewish Americans
Stores, retail
Cookery, Jewish
Food industry and trade
Community enterprise | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bread at Paramount bakery
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Two color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing | Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing | Still Image | Fieldwork
Music performance
Jewish Americans
Music rehearsals
Musical instruments
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Two color slide. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot) | Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot) | Still Image | Fieldwork
Craft
Material culture
Weaving
Textile arts
Judaism
Religious art
Religion
Shawls
Jews
Women weavers
Weavers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)
- Date
- 1985-08-15
- Description
- Four color slides. Images of Semigran's hand woven Jewish prayer shawls. Jewish tradition is to wear fringes on the corners of four-cornered garments. Since this is no longer a commonly worn type of garment, it is customary to wear a Tallit, a prayer shawl, during morning services. A Tallit can be made from any material and can be any color. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Still Image | Fieldwork
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Interviewing
Jewish Americans
Artists
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Gefilte fish on sale at kosher grocer | Gefilte fish on sale at kosher grocer | Still Image | Fieldwork
Merchants
Fishes
Kosher food
Jews
Jewish Americans
Stores, retail
Cookery, Jewish
Food industry and trade
Community enterprise | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Gefilte fish on sale at kosher grocer
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- One color slide. Kefilte fish are a traditional Jewish food that is a ball or cake of chopped fish mixed with eggs and matzah meal. The grocr wa slocated on Washington Avenue. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
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