Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1923-2003 (Creation)
Level of description
Manuscript Collection
Extent and medium
23 boxes and items (4.5 metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Naomi Bell is a musicologist, teacher, accompanist and lecturer. She has presented musical lectures and courses to synagogues and public libraries, women’s and seniors’ organizations, study groups and educational conferences, and at The Institute for Jewish Learning. She has lectured at the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Second International Yiddish Conference, and has been Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Sholom in Chicago. She was a performer at the Israel at Fifty pavilion at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1998 and at the 1996 convention of the American Conference of Cantors, receiving a standing ovation for her two workshops on Yiddish song. For more than twenty years she taught music at various Hebrew and Yiddish schools, and was Music Director of Bialik Hebrew Day School for ten years.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Naomi Bell, 2008.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes an extensive collection of Yiddish folk songs and other songs, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew, including Canonical and Art Songs. Also includes some rare and fragile music and song books; cassettes of 'Naomis Programs' and collected songs; as well as research notes, lecture-recital material, workshops and presentations created and presented by Bell.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English