Projects
Sharing with you raw materials and first results of all our ongoing research initiatives before they reach the publication stage.
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An introduction
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…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us rejoice”).
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
The dramatic immigration of the Ethiopian Jews from their country...