It just looks like a mess of paper, but.. while I was in Montreal Josh Dolgin (Socalled) invited me to his office at McGill to look at the boxes of Yiddish choral music which were discarded after the sale of the former Arbeter Ring (Workers Circle) building. It's about 3 big boxes with many duplicates so he's still trying to match parts together and make sense of what is in there.
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A lot of the scores are published Yiddish choral scores from NY like this one, dating back to the heydey of Soviet-oriented Yiddish choirs from New York.
The majority were copies of vocal parts for pieces composed of arranged by a handful of directors of the Montreal Arbeter Ring choir (Rubinstein, Burko, etc.). Josh is still trying to go through the boxes and set aside a set of SATB for each piece if they are in there. Plenty of interesting stuff I'd like to get my choir in Vancouver to perform another year if possible.
fwiw here is a google drive with my snapshots from my visit. hoping they can be sorted and scanned so I can take a better look another time.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1izt_qYPgVNT6rI-5Aiqzp2S03ICX84Gi?usp=drive_link
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