Projects
Sharing with you raw materials and first results of all our ongoing research initiatives before they reach the publication stage.
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
The dramatic immigration of the Ethiopian Jews from their country...
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript collector Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published a short…
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
“From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint venture of the…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the…
Arabs - Jews - Music
With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of the Jews of…
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv, aka the “Beregovski Collection,” [henceforth: the Kyiv…
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music (minhag Ashkenaz) accessible to the scholarly community and…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood largely populated by new immigrants from Ethiopia, and…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “…
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us rejoice”).
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish music for its rich musical…