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Benedict Stambler (1903-1967), was a man with a mission. That mission was to gather the Jewish audio heritage on 78 rpm records so that they could be re-engineered and re-issued as LPs. In 1959 working with his wife Helen, he founded the Collectors Guild record label which eventually released about 100 LPs of cantorial, Yiddish theater, Chasidic, and folk music. The first LP produced by Collectors Guild was an anthology, Great Voices of the Synagogue. Stambler developed a unique catalog in which every re-engineered LP recording carried meticulously researched liner notes, including performer biographies, long-forgotten photos and complete texts in Hebrew or Yiddish, with transliterations and translations.