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Musica Judaica Online Reviews

Musica Judaica Online Reviews is an open-access online journal that publishes reviews of books, films, significant events, and recordings chronicling all forms of Jewish musical expression. This journal is an electronic edition of the reviews section of Musica Judaica, a scholarly journal that focuses on Jewish music research. Musica Judaica has been published by the American Society for Jewish Music since 1976, and caters to scholars, composers, cantors, rabbis, and laypeople interested in Jewish musical expressions.

National Sound Archive (NSA), Music Center, National Library of Israel

Neimah Singers

Orbis Musicae

This is the online version of Orbis Musicae, an international musicological journal published by the Department of Musicology of Tel Aviv University since the 1970s until 2007. While the journal publishes articles and book reviews (mostly in English, but with occasional contributions in German and French) dealing with all aspects of musicology, the editors have attempted in the past to emphasize the music of the Middle East and of the Mediterranean basin.

Rabbins et Hazanim d'Alsace

This link provides information on the cantors and rabbis of Alsace and Lorraine from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It is part of a larger site, Judaisme d'Alsace et de Lorraine. In French.

Renanot - Jewish Music Institute

The Renanot Institute deals with the documentation, research and promotion of Jewish music of the various ethnic Jewish communities, as well as with the promotion of religious Jewish singing and cantorial music in every possible way.

Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive Catalogue

This catalogue contains over 28,000 Yiddish and other Jewish songs and albums from the Freedman collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Sephardic Hazzanut Project

The Sephardic Hazzanut Project, a website collecting information and recordings concerning Sephardic Hazzanut, was started by Faraj Samra in 2009, beginning with 20 recordings, and now containing more than 1,500 recordings. In addition to the many recordings available through the website, supplementary information regarding Sephardic pizmonim, maqamot, holidays, and daily tefillah, among an array of other subjects, can be found on this website.

Shalshelet

The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music seeks to foster new music for Jewish congregational use and expose wider audiences to innovations in Jewish religious music. Shalshelet promotes the creation and spread of new Jewish liturgical music by looking for the answers to these questions: Which congregations are singing different tunes? Who is writing and leading these new compositions? How can these compositions be found, collected, and shared?

Shulmusic, Jewish Liturgical Music

Srul Irving Glick

This site includes biographical notes about Glick, his works and repertory, as well as some sound examples.

Tara Publications (jewishmusic.com)

Tara Publications was founded in Cedarhurst, LI in 1971 by musicologist Velvel Pasternak. The goal of the company was “the publication, preservation and dissemination of the heritage of Jewish music.” The earliest publications were collections of Hasidic songs based on recordings arranged and conducted by Pasternak. These were followed by Israeli, Yiddish, Klezmer, Choral, Cantorial and Instrumental music collections. Digital formats can be accessed from around the globe at jewishmusic.com.

Terezin Music Foundation

This website is dedicated to the preservation, performance, and research of the music written by composers who perished during the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on those in Theresienstadt. Includes information about the foundation's research activities, archives, and educational programs, as well as a calendar of upcoming musical performances. (Description found on US Holocaust Memorial Website; Music, Web Resources)

The Klezmer Shack

An informative site which focuses on Klezmer music and the Klezmer revival. It provides an up-to-date calendar of events all over the world. It also contains links to articles, instrument shops, organizations, bands, sources of sheet music, and recordings.

The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

The Jewish Women’s Archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of Jewish women. This website is the world’s largest collection of information on Jewish women. It also contains articles and educational programs.

Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine

Housing one of the most important collections of early recordings of Jewish music, the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, located in Kiev, has made their hard to find CD releases available for free online streaming. This audio collection of ten CDs are drawn from the famous early musicological expeditions of An-sky, Engel, Kisselhof, Lurie and Beregovsky.

Yiddish Book Center

The Yiddish Book Center defines itself as “a nonprofit organization working to tell the whole Jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating Yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern Jewish identity.” The majority of the center’s resources are literary in nature, however ample archival recordings can be found on their website, including a wealth of interviews (video and audio) with Jewish musicians and educators discussing the topic of Jewish music.

Yiddish Music

The site contains a comprehensive collection of recordings, lyrics, and biographies of Yiddish musicians. The site is in Russian, English, and Hebrew. The majority of the website is in Russian, however some biographies are available in English. The sound recordings and information regarding these recordings are readily accessible in English throughout the site.

Yiddish song: an A-Z of Research

This bibliography outlines a range of published works concerning various aspects of Yiddish song, particularly folk song. (This selection has been distilled from a larger bibliography compiled as part of Abbi Wood's PhD research.)

Zemereshet

Zemereshet (primarily in Hebrew) defines itself as a website run by advocates of the early Hebrew folksong. Their goal is to save from extinction songs written in Hebrew, from the early stages of Zionism up until the establishment of Israel, and to make these songs openly accessible to the public through the website. Zemereshet provides a wealth of collected recordings, including lyrics, archival materials, and contextual background.

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