The Benmayor Collection of Eastern Sephardic Ballads and Other Lore is a special sub-collection within the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (SSDC), part of the University of Washington Library's Digital Collections. It consists of over 140 digitized audio recordings of songs gathered by Dr. Rina Benmayor in Seattle and Los Angeles during the 1970s for her PhD dissertation. These songs, known as romansas, were sung by Sephardic Jews who were born and raised in the former Ottoman Empire, mainly from Rhodes, Marmara and Tekirdag, and all of whom immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. The songs include ballads, folksongs, coplas, and lyrics songs, among others.
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The Benmayor Collection of Eastern Sephardic Ballads and Other Lore is a special sub-collection within the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (SSDC), part of the University of Washington Library's Digital Collections. It consists of over 140 digitized audio recordings of songs gathered by Dr. Rina Benmayor in Seattle and Los Angeles during the 1970s for her PhD dissertation. These songs, known as romansas, were sung by Sephardic Jews who were born and raised in the former Ottoman Empire, mainly from Rhodes, Marmara and Tekirdag, and all of whom immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. The songs include ballads, folksongs, coplas, and lyrics songs, among others.
(Description adapted from information on project website)