| LC control no. | n 2012052322 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML429.Y68 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Young, Izzy, 1928-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Young, Israel, 1928-2019 |
| Associated place | Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) |
| Located | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1928-03-26 |
| Death date | 2019-02-04 |
| Place of birth | Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Stockholm (Sweden) |
| Field of activity | Folk music |
| Affiliation | Folklore Centrum Folklore Center (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Impresarios |
| Found in | The conscience of the folk revival, 2013: t.p. (Israel "Izzy" Young) ecip galley (b. Mar. 26, 1928) New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 6, 2019 (in obituary published Feb. 5: Izzy Young; b. Israel Goodman Young, Mar. 26, 1928, Lower East Side of Manhattan; reared in the Bronx; d. Monday [Feb. 4, 2019], Stockholm, aged 90; his Greenwich Village shop, the Folklore Center, was the beating heart of the midcentury folk music revival; in 1961, he presented the first New York concert by a young Bob Dylan; opened the Folklore Center in Apr. 1957; it moved to Sixth Avenue in 1965; eight years later, after being transfixed by traditional Swedish fiddle music, Young closed the store and relocated to Stockholm, where he opened the Folklore Centrum; in Nov. 2018, the center announced that it would be closing at the end of the month) |
| Associated language | eng |
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