Moshe Kusevitsky (1955) Festival Gems Sung by the Cantor of Warsaw Moshe Kusevitsky (1955) Festival Gems Sung by the Cantor of Warsaw This record from the Jewish Music Institute (JMI) is an example of rare shellac discs ethnomusicologist and audio cataloguer, Edoardo Marcarini, catalogued and digitised. The JMI collection is a varied archive of Jewish music recordings and related materials that is available to explore here: https://jmi.org.uk/archive/ Shellac discs play at 78rpm and were a primary music format from the late 1890s to the late 1950s. However, shellac is very brittle so many discs have been damaged or lost. Examples like this are important to preserve and this was one of the records Edoardo flagged to have digitised so the recording survived. JMI Archive Cultural | Holocaust | ReligionPartially online Jewish Music Institute (JMI) is the home of Jewish music in the UK, dedicated to the celebration, preservation and development of the […] 28 Nov 2025 Archivist in the Spotlight: Preserving Jewish Musical Heritage with Edoardo Marcarini In the second of our Archivist in the Spotlight series, we speak to Edoardo Marcarini, an ethnomusicologist and audio cataloguer whose recent […]