ENDuring 1944-1945 J. Balys worked as an assistant at the German Folksongs Archive in Freiburg. In 1946-1947 he taught at the Baltic University in Hamburg. In 1948, together with his family he came to the USA, having been invited by Professor Stith Thompson to work at Indiana University in Bloomington. Lacking original sources and collections left behind in Vilnius, he decided to visit Lithuanian immigrants in America and record folklore they still remembered. These expeditions proved successful: on magnetic tape he recorded about 1200 items, mostly songs, also folktales, instrumental music and other folklore genres. [From the publication]