This is a performance of La Piccola Italia Marcia, composed by Pietro Oddo, at The Feast of the Assumption in Cleveland's Little Italy on August 16, 2010, by the Italian Band of Cleveland. Oddo (1843-1916) served in a musical band regiment of the Italian military before arriving in Cleveland in 1901. He composed band music, including waltzes and marches, many of which became standards for Italian and Italian American musical organizations. "La Piccola Italia Marcia" dates to the 1910s; its 2010 performance by the Italian Band of Cleveland was likely the first time it was performed in public in nearly a hundred years.
Part of a series of interviews documenting the unique immigrant experience of Asian Indians in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life.
Telephone Calls to the Soviet Union, Mark Talisman, Washington, DC, 4-23-1973. According to Miriam Rosenblum, this is a recording of a special briefing session by Mark Talisman (aide to Rep. Charles Vanik, D-OH) on the topic of Congressional legislation and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. This briefing was likely conducted for a meeting of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
Singing in Varnovitsky's flat, Leningrad (taped by Sheldon Benjamin), 7-74. Miriam Rosenblum and Sheldon Benjamin made a live recording of refuseniks singing in Leningrad, July 1974.
Produced by Lou Rosenblum and Mort Epstein in 1969 as a project of the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism with the support of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. This film, with comments by Dr. Abraham J. Heschel and narration by Dorothy Silver, deals with historic and present day problems of Jews in the Soviet Union. Rabbi Heschel, regarded as one of the most significant thinkers of our time, was Professor of Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of American and author of nearly two dozen books. Interwoven throughout the film along with Dr. Heschel's expert observations are scenes utilizing rare photographic and art material. The Soviet Jewish family that was created for use in the film consisted of members of Beth Israel-The West Temple. Ed Alt played the father; Alice Marks played the mother; Miriam Rosenblum played the daughter; and Robert Hoffman played the son.