Although his recording career was short, renewed attention was given to Elenkrig's output in the late 1970s during the Klezmer revival. Recordings of his made it onto a number of klezmer reissue albums, including Klezmer music (1910-1927): early Yiddish instrumental music (Folklyric, 1983), Klezmer music 1910-1942: recordings from the YIVO Archives (Global Village, 1986), Klezmer pioneers: European and American recordings, 1905-1952 (Rounder Records, 1993), Klezmer!: Jewish music from old world to our world (Yazoo, 2000), and Cantors, klezmorim, and crooners, 1905-1953 : classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection (JSP, 2009).
