From the Archives: Cantorial music

This cantorial album was recorded for Sukkot in 1926 in New York City by Mordechai Hershman. It includes the tracks Af B’ri and Tanchum.  Hershman was born in Ukraine, but immigrated to the United States in 1920, where he became chief hazzan at a temple in Brooklyn.  From the Montreal Holocaust Museum collection. Details can be seen here.