36 booklets with sheet music for Hebrew songs, Yiddish songs and Jewish folk songs, and three additional booklets about Hebrew songs and music, Palestine, Europe, England and the USA, ca. early 20th century to 1940s. Hebrew, English, Russian and Yiddish.
Varied collection of booklets with sheet music for songs, most of them with illustrated covers. Including booklets published by "Yuval", Hebrew music publishers, Berlin; by "Yavneh", Jerusalem – the Agency for the Diaspora in Berlin; by "Kipnis Falks-Leader Zamlong", Warsaw; by "Zimra", Warsaw; by "Yudisher Literarisher Farlag", Lemberg; by A.Z. Idelsohn, Jerusalem; by Jos. P. Katz, New York; by Gesellschaft fur Judische Volksmusik in St.-Petersburg; by S. Alman, London; and additional publishers.
Enclosed: two issues of "Hallel", an artistic and scientific journal for poetry and singing, edited by Dr. M. Zandberg and M. S. Gshuri. Published by the Jerusalemite Institute for New Music, Jerusalem. Issues 1 and 2, 1930; a booklet "From the Songs of Palestine – Content of the Records", Tel Aviv: The "Achva" Records and Phonographs Factory, [ca. 1940].
Some booklets appear in several copies.
Size and condition vary. Notations and stamps to several booklets. Damp damage to several booklets.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.