Johanna Spector Audio Collection

Johanna Spector was an ethnomusicologist, documentary film maker, and professor studying the native cantillation and lives of Middle Eastern and Asian Jewish communities. This collection includes post-WWII materials, including 1,164 audio tapes, a portion of which have been digitized here.
The Johanna Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials processing project was made possible by a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR).
Digitization of many of the items was funded by a Recordings at Risk grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through the Council on Library Resources (CLIR).