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In 2003, just one year after professors Lewis Glinert and Alexander Hartov founded the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive, Theodore Bikel, the celebrated American actor, singer, and political activist who toured for decades as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, wrote to them to request access.
“It’s like having someone like Shostakovich suddenly write to you,” recalls Glinert, a professor in the Middle Eastern Studies Program.