Lionel Ziprin

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Lionel Ziprin (b. 1925) is a former beatnik poet and gadfly living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He is also the grandson of renowned Orthodox Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, who recorded a 15-LP set of Jewish liturgical music in a neighborhood yeshiva during the 1950s with noted ethnomusicologist Harry Smith.

Ziprin has spent most of his life attempting to find a large record label to distribute these recordings, which did not receive much attention until a New Year's Day story about his quest was broadcast on National Public Radio. Following the broadcast, several prominent individuals-including musician John Zorn-expressed an interest in finding a mainstream distributor for his grandfather's recordings.

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• FIBA 2006 Articles related to Ziprin's work.
• A Grandson's Quest to Preserve His Jewish Heritage Original NPR report.
• A Beatnik Finds Treasure In His Grandfather’s Beats