URL: http://www.nationalfinder.com/jmr/index.htm
Updated: 7 February 2012

Compiled by Roger Shlomo Harris © 2000-2012
jmr@nationalfinder.com

The following list contains mainly Jewish-interest music links.

There are also a number of links which, although not of specifically Jewish interest, lead to information of a technical nature within the context of music. These include a page of links to search engines and searching tips and techniques.

You can search this page easily by typing 'Ctrl-F' on the keyboard to invoke the Windows search facility. It will find, display and highlight your search keyword wherever it occurs in this page.

My thanks for additional information go to Roxy Boleyn, Prof. Dr. M. Edelman, Prof. Lewis Glinert, Mason Weisz, Tzvi Pincas, Margit Hagan and Irwin Oppenheim.

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A Cappella

Habayit - The home of Jewish a cappella

Web: http://www.habayit.com/

Hasidic Cappella - Russia's leading Jewish a cappella group:

Also listed below under Choral as Moscow Male Jewish Choir
E-Mail: Alexsander Tsaliuk (Artistic director and conductor) atsaliuk@mtu-net.ru
Web: http://www.hasidic-cappella.webzone.ru/

Kol Echad - Boston University's Jewish a cappella group

Web: http://www.bu.edu/hillel/kol_echad/main.shtml
E-mail: jml81@bu.edu

Kol Tefilah - shomer shabbes, a capella ensemble based in Boston, U.S.A. and specialising in Jewish liturgical music:

http://www.koltefilah.org/

Kol Zimra, New Jersey, U.S.A.

http://www.kolzimra.com/

Magevet A Cappella student group at Yale University sings

Jewish and Israeli music:
Web: http://www.yale.edu/magevet/

Manginah - only co-ed Jewish a cappella group at Brandeis University

Web: http://www.manginah.com/

Neima - Jewish Collegiate A Cappella Groups

Web: http://www.neima.org/groups.htm

Pizmon Jewish A Cappella

Web: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/jsu/pizmon/index.html

Shir Appeal (Tufts University): Tufts' only co-ed Jewish a cappella group.

Web: http://ase.tufts.edu/shirappeal/shirappeal.htm
E-mail: shirappeal@hotmail.com

Shircago - co-ed Jewish a cappella vocal ensemble based in Chicago.

Web: http://shircago.com/   [audio clips: Modeh Ani, Tov L'hodot]
E-mail: info@shircago.com.

Staam - Washington University's premier Jewish a cappella ensemble

Web: http://www.staam.org
E-mail: staam@restech.wustl.edu

Western Wind A Cappella Ensemble:

recordings: Taste of Eternity - Friday Night Service and Table Songs (Z'Mirot), The Birthday of the World, Music and Traditions of the High Holy Days: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, The Chanukkah Story (with Theodore Bikel), Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews (narrator: Tovah Feldshuh); http://www.westernwind.org/

Discussion group:alt.music.a-cappella

Discussion group:rec.music.a-cappella

Web: http://www.casa.org/web_directory.html

Adama Musical Group

E-mail: shalom@emf.net
Web: http://www.emf.net/~shalom/
Achi Ben Shalom Collection of Jewish music for educational purposes;
referral service for all music needs. Translation, transliteration
and Hebrew script included. Workshops for music teachers.
Source: YiddishNet, May 31, 1999, Vol 3.219, yiddishnet@shamash.org

Archives

Darmouth Jewish Sound Archive

The Archive was established in 2002 to provide scholars with:
1.. streamed web-based access to Jewish recordings that are not commercially available.
2.. related, searchable information that can aid in the study of Jewish music and culture, Jewish society, and the history of Jewish recordings.
Bona fide researchers may apply for access privileges.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~djsa/

Florida Atlantic University Jewish Sound Archive

"The Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries is dedicated to bringing the recorded music from the Golden Age of Jewish Music to a new home where its past will be respected and its future assured. In addition to its primary focus of rescuing and preserving 78 rpm records from the first half of the 20th century, the project has expanded its scope to include LPs, tapes, 45s and sheet music."
http://faujsa.fau.edu/jsa/home.php

Music Jewbox

Over 500 MP3 tracks (Nov 2002) in twelve easily accessible categories.
http://music.sevivon.com/

XenoMusic

http://www.XenoMusic.com
A very large site with a wide range of music. Many Eastern European albums. Finding something was easy when using the XenoMusic search engine but the retrieval time is around 50 seconds. Keywords which retrieved Jewish-interest music were hebrew, jewish, klezmer, niggun, rabbi, synagogue and yiddish. Some tracks are free but most are charged via Visa, MC and Amex at the rate of US$0.00394 per second (5 mins = US$1.18). Free previews: 20-30 seconds.

Audio editors (digital format)

Fleximusic: http://www.fleximusic.com/

• wave editor, MP3 editor, special effects, convert formats, composer, sound generator, orchestra

Goldwave: http://www.goldwave.com/

• audio editor, multi-track mixer

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Bands

David Chevan's Afro-Semitic Band

http://www.chevan.addr.com/ase_about.html

Divahn

http://www.divahn.com [audio clips]
Mason Weisz wrote: "Divahn is the only all-female group in the USA playing Mizrahi-influenced music, and they won a Golden Bagel at the Jewish Music Awards 2005 in the category of 'Best Middle Eastern Blend.'"

Evergreen Israeli Celtic band

instrumental compositions from the Galilee with Irish inspiration
http://www.evergreen.org.il/

Heedoosh

As its name implies, the music of this new band is something of a revelation. The brainchild of two Israeli Yemenite brothers, Yahav and Yaniv Tsaidi, Heedoosh performs deeply personal, spiritual Jewish rock music that pulls no punches. New York, NY, U.S.A.
http://www.heedoosh.com
http://www.myspace.com/heedoosh

www.Jewishmusician.com

.. comprising The Binyomin Ginzberg Trio and The Simcha Ensemble
Location: Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
http://www.jewishmusician.com/

Majimaz

.. comprises: five members; voice, oud, violin, flutes, percussion, bass, piano-accordion and guitar.
The group is seeking to re-awaken the interconnection of Jewish and Arabian music through Sefardi vocal music, Arabian and Jewish instrumental music as well as ancient Israeli and Yiddish songs.
http://www.majimaz.net/

Matisyahu Miller - Hasidic reggae group (vocals, drums, guitar, bass)

http://www.hasidicreggae.com/

Nafshenu Orchestra, New York

http://www.nafshenu.com/

Trio Zimbalista

An Israeli percussion group which was due to perform at London's Royal Festival Hall as part of the Rhythm Sticks drumming and percussion festival in July 2005. The performance was cancelled.

Tzimmes: http://www.tzimmes.net

A very interesting web-site with several pages of well-written information about Jewish music of all kinds.

Yachad - The Traveling Tefillah Band

http://www.yachadmusic.com

Berkeley Library Gladis Catalogue

Telnet: telnet://gopac.berkeley.edu (128.32.159.19)

Blogs - Jewish music

Web: http://www.blogindm.blogspot.com/
Web: http://jewishmuzic.blogspot.com/

Book-finders:

Web: http://www.nationalfinder.com/bfs/index.htm

Booking Agents specialising in Jewish Artists

Artist Booking International (USA): http://www.artistbooking.com/

Books

A few books are listed below. You can find specialist
Judaica booksellers via search engines (see below) or
see my 'Hebraica and Judaica Booksellers' list elsewhere
on this site.

Compleat Klezmer, The

Authors: Henry Sapoznik, with Pete Sokolow.
Publisher: Tara Publications, Cedarhurst,N.Y., USA.
ISBN: 0-933676-10-7
Format: 80pp. 21.5cm W x 27.7cm H. Paperback. Spiral bound.

Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Decent [sic]

Author: Lewis Stevens
Format: Hardback. 256 pages.
ISBN: 0-85303-482-6.

Publisher's comment: This book describes and assesses the relative preponderance of composers of Jewish descent, particularly during the last two hundred years, giving a history of composers of Jewish descent from biblical times to the present day, and assessing the importance of composers of classical music during the last two hundred years.

Discovering Jewish Music

Author: Marsha Bryan Edelman
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society, USA.
Format: 420 pages. Hardcover

Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood. 1___Author: Jack Gottlieb 1___Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2004 1___Format: Hardcover

Gershwin, His Life and Music 1___Author: Charles Schwartz 1___Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1990 1___Format: Paperback, 428pp 1___ISBN: 0306800969

Jewish Music in its Historical Development

Author: A.Z. Idelsohn (C)1956.
Publisher: Schocken Books, New York.
ISBN: 0-8052-0165-3.
Library of Congress Catalog Card: 67-25236
Format: xvi + 535pp. Index. 13.4cm W x 20.2cm H. Paperback.
(Reprinted by Dover Publishing, ISBN 0-486-27147-1)

Music and Kabbala

Author: Rabbi M. Glazerson
Publisher: Raz-Ot Institute, 5 Amos Street, Geulah, Jerusalem.
Telephone: +972 (0)2-382116.

Mystical Power of Music, The

Author: Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman © 2005
Publisher: Targum / Feldheim
ISBN: 1-56871-346-0

Pearls of Yiddish Song

Authors: Eleanor Gordon Mlotek and Joseph Mlotek
Publisher: Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.
ISBN: none. Library of Congress Card: 88-83027
Format: xii + 288pp. 21.4cm W x 27.4cm H. Paperback.

Treasury of Jewish Song, A

Editor: Ruth Rubin.
Publisher: Schocken Books.
ISBN: none. Library of Congress Catalogue Card: 50-14685.
Format: 224pp. 21.0cm W x 27.2cm H. Paperback

Voices of a People - the story of Yiddish folksong

Author: Ruth Rubin (C)1979.
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America.
ISBN: 0-8276-0121-0
Format: 558pp. 14.0cm W x 21.6cm H. Paperback

Yiddish Song Book, The

Author: Jerry Silverman
Publisher: Stein & Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, USA.
ISBN: 0-8128-6130-2
Format: xvi + 207. 20.4cm W x 27.9cm H. Paperback.

Books - research at Questia on-line library

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=jewish_music&OFFID=se2
http://www.questia.com

British Library (BLAISE - The British Library's Automated Information Service):

Twenty-two databases, 17 million bibliographic records.
Address: British Library NBS, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire,

LS23 7BQ, U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)1937-546 585.
Facsimile: +44 (0)1937-546 586.
E-mail: blaiseline-helpdesk@bl.uk
Web: http://portico.bl.uk/

Brown University - Judaic Studies

Web: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Judaic_Studies/

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California Digital Library - Music

Web: http://www.oac.cdlib.org:28008/dynaweb/ead/berkeley/music

Cantillation

Web: http://www.maxsynagogue.com

http://www.maxsynagogue.com/w_euro_torah.pdf

See Neginot, below.

Cantor Index

A financial derivatives service having nothing to do with cantors or music.

Cantor Number

An aleph! With numerical subscripts, alephs were used by Georg Cantor, a nineteenth century gentile mathematician and inventor of set theory. His ideas led to the enlargement of set theory by Gaston Julia and Benoit Mandlebrot (of the eponymous Set).

Cantorial arts

Cantors' Assembly

E-mail: CAOffice@aol.com
Web: http://www.cantors.org/sys-tmpl/door/

Sepharadic cantorial art, see Sepharadic Pizmonim, below.
Virtual Cantor

Extensive collection of on-line audio files; click & listen. Needs Winamp player.
Web: http://www.virtualcantor.com/

Cantors, American Conference of

http://www.rj.org/acc/
Guild of Temple Musicians (Reform). Affiliated to ACC.
Koleinu monthly newsletter.

Cantors: Male Cantors

Daniel Halfon is a leading authority on the cantorial style of the western Sephardim, i.e. the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. Audio clips.

http://www.danielhalfon.com/

Cantors: Women Cantor's Network

From the WCN home-page: Women cantors have been recognized and accepted into all liberal cantorial schools and organizations. Yet the need for women cantors to come together has not diminished. Networking among women encourages and inspires us as we share knowledge and experiences in balancing our relationships with congregations, families and friends.
 
The membership benefits of conferences and phone networking has broadened with the regular publication of a newsletter beginning in 1983, the writing of a constitution and by-laws in 1993, the commissioning of new Jewish music in 1997, and the creation of an on-line list-serve network in 1998.
 
Web: http://www.womencantors.net
Web: http://www.womencantors.net/members_links.html
 
Cantor Marie Betcher

http://www.mariebetcher.com/ [audio clip: Avinu Malkeinu]

Chanting, see Leining, below.

Chanting the Haggadah

An Old Country Passover - a selection of nineteen short audio files recorded live by Rabbi Peretz Weizman, in April 2001, at the Chesed Shel Emmes in Winnipeg.
http://www.onforeignsoil.com/haggadah.htm

Chanting the Hebrew Bible

• Book: Chanting the Hebrew Bible," by Joshua Jacobson, (c) 2002, The Jewish Publication Society.
• Interactive software developed by Koltor Corp., Canada, provides a means of learning to chant correctly. A beautifully designed audio-visual demonstration of the program is available at http://www.koltor.com.

Chassidische music

Gal-Paz, Israel: http://www.galpaz.co.il/
Shops in Bnei Brak, Haifa, Jerusalem and New York.

Chazzan, see Cantor

Chazzanut Online

Irwin Oppenheim's comprehensive site on Jewish liturgical music, with a large collection of cantorial sheet music, annotated links and background information.
http://www.chazzanut.com/ NEW WEB-SITE ADDRESS, February 2004

Children's Music

Kiddiegifts

Contact: Orly Binder, Amos Barzel
KiddieGifts, 18 Tnuat Hameri Street, Ramat Gan, Israel 52325.
Telephone: +972-3-5742025
E-mail: abbarzel@zahav.net.il
Web: http://www.kiddiegifts.co.il
Specialists in musical productions for schools and kindergartens. Kiddiegifts is able to create entire productions - writing, composing, arranging, and recording the material, cd's and cassettes - without resorting to outside bodies.

Children's Songs

Peter & Ellen:

http://www.peterandellen.com

Jewish music for children

http://www.totshabbat.com
Contact: robin@totshabbat.com

'Two Candles Burn - New Festival Songs For Children'

introduces children to songs for Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah,
Chanukah, Shavuot and others. Arranged and produced by
Stephen Melzack. Audio cassette.
Two Candles (Online) Limited,
55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LN, England.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7242 5462
Facsimile: +44 (0)20 7405 2944
E-mail: info@twocandles.com
Web: http://www.twocandles.com

Chironomy

A system of hand signals which are used to convey the trop or cantillation to the person reading from a Sefer Torah.

See Leining, below.

Choral

Alyth Choral Society, London, UK

Telephone: +44 (0)20-8883 1773.
Web: http://www.alythchoralsociety.org.uk

Amsterdams Synagogaal Koor (Amsterdam Synagogue Choir)

Web: http://www.ask-choir.org/

Coro Ha-Kol (Italy): http://web.tiscalinet.it/hakol/

Ladinostalgia - Ladino choir from Jerusalem, Israel

Web: http://www.geocities.com/broadway/7140/

[The] London Cantorial Singers

Web: http://www.tlcs.org.uk/

London Jewish Male Choir

Web: http://www.ljmc.org.uk/
Telephone: +44 (0)20-8445 2194, 0795 624 6659

London School of Jewish Song (male voices only?)

Conductor/director: Yigal Calek, +44 (0)20-8458 8137

Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale

Web: http://www.lazc.org

Mordje Guebirtig Jewish Choir, Buenos Ayres, Argentina

http://elcoro.com.ar/english/principal-eng.html

Moscow Male Jewish Choir - Hasidic Cappella

Also listed above under A Cappella as Hasidic Cappella.
E-Mail: Alexsander Tsaliuk (Artistic director and conductor) atsaliuk@mtu-net.ru
Web: http://www.hasidic-cappella.webzone.ru/

North American Jewish Choral Festival, USA

Web: http://uahc.org/music/choral/

Oranim Singers, London, UK

Telephone: +44 (0)20-8455 5276. Ask for Hagai.

Shabbaton [Orthodox] Choir, Hertfordshire, UK

Telephone: +44 (0)446 5740.

Shir Hadavar Choir, Bristol, UK

Telephone: +44 (0)?

Jewish Synagogue Music - score facsimiles and MIDI files

http://www.amyisrael.co.il/berman/anim.html

Zamir Choral Foundation, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Web: http://www.zamirfdn.org
The Foundation, founded and directed by Matthew Lazar, sponsors a wide range of programs in Jewish choral music, including the Zamir Chorale (the original, founded in 1960 by Stanley Sperber), HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir, and the North American Jewish Choral Festival.

Zamir Chorale of Boston, USA

Web: http://www.zamir.org/

Zemel Choir, London, U.K.

Telephone: +44 (0)20-8868 8423
E-mail: info@the-zemel-choir.org
Web: http://www.the-zemel-choir.org

Classical music

Listserv: listname: moderated classical music

Subscribe: listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com
Send message: subscribe mod (?) forename surname

Listserv: listname: classm-l

Subscribe: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu
Send message: subscribe classm-l forename surname

Discussion group: rec.music.classical

Discussion group: rec.music.classical.performing

Web: http://www.classical.net

Web: http://www.gprep.pvt.k12.md.us/classical

Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/classical-music.html

Commission on Synagogue Music (USA)

musiccommission@uahc.org

Complex music

Discussion group: alt.music.complex-arrang

Composers

Yosef (Joe) Cohen - folk-pop singer, songwriter

http://www.yosefcohen.com/ [audio clips, downloads]

Sidney Goldberg, NJ, U.S.A.

In October 2005 was seeking a composer to write musical scores.

http://www.SidneyGoldbergWriter.com

Alexandr Morduhovich - Jewish composer, educator and musician.

http://www.morduhovich.com

Lior Navok - Jewish composer and orchestrator. Based in Israel.

http://www.liornavok.com

Nikos Pogonatos - pianist, composer, arranger, teacher of music.

Based in Switzerland. Founder, 2002, Klezmer Trio Chalojmes in Zürich.
Yiddish and Jewish songs. Audio clips on web-site.
http://www.nikos-pogonatos.ch
nikos.music@hispeed.ch

Composition

Discussion group: rec.music.compose

Discussion group: alt.music.sondheim (Stephen Sondheim)

Web: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/.../composition-FAQ/faq.html

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Deciphering hand-writing in old documents

Old documents often require special techniques in deciphering.
For a superficial tutorial see

Web: http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html

Scripta Project (Palaeography):

Web: http://www.ets.bris.ac.uk/tosolini/scripta/

Debbie Friedman

Web: http://www.debbiefriedman.com/

Dolby Laboratories

Web: http://www.dolby.com/

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Early Music

Listserv: listname: earlym-l

Subject: Medieval and Renaissance music

Subscribe listserv@aearn.aco.net
Send message: subscribe earlym-l forename surname

Listserv: med-and-ren-music

Subscribe: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

Discussion group: rec.music.early

Web: http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/eem/ 25 music audio files.

ERIC Database at Syracuse University

Web: http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/

Ethnomusicology Research Digest

Web: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Newsletters/Ethnomusicology/

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FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions and answers about music)

Web: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/music/top.html

Film music

E-mail: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

Listserv: listname: filmus-l

Subscribe: listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
Send message: subscribe filmus-l forename surname

Films with Jewish characters

Web: http://www.cinerhama.com/jewish/ind01.html

Films, Videos and TV Programs of Jewish Interest

Discussion group: news:rec.music.movies

Jewish Film Archive: http://members.aol.com/jewfilm/index.html

Florida State University School of Music

Web: http://www.music.fsu.edu/

Web: http://www.music.fsu.edu/music.html Links to schools, research.

Friedman, see Debbie Friedman, above.

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Genealogy

Listserv: listname: jewishgen

Subscribe: listproc@listserv.eworld.com
Send message: subscribe jewishgen forename surname

Discussion group: news:soc.genealogy.jewish

Web: http://www.jewishgen.org/

General

Discussion group: news:rec.music.info

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers (performers)

Web: http://www.musica.uci.edu

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.marketplace

Discussion group: news:rec.music.collecting.cds

Gilbert & Sullivan Archive

Web: http://diamond.idbsu.edu/gas/index.html

The Gilbert & Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera Company of Long Island, New York, has been performing Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas in Yiddish/English since about 1984. Performances have been given in the United States, Canada and as far afield as London, England, where 'Der Yiddisher Mikado' was performed in London in August 1996.
Web: http://www.gsyiddish.com/

Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA, U.S.A.

Web: http://www.gratz.edu
The College offers an MA in Jewish Music program which trains hazzanim and other Jewish music professionals, as well as an extensive library of Jewish music, including the world-renowned Eric Mandell Collection.

Guild of Temple Musicians

See 'Cantors, American Conference of,' above.

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Hava Nashira - Jewish Songleaders Resource

http://www.uahcweb.org/congs/ot/ot006/

Links to music publishers, Jewish songbooks, etc.

Hazan, see Cantor

Hebrew Songs

Shlomo Argamon's Jewish Melodies and Lyrics Page

Web: http://ir.iit.edu/~argamon/songs.html

Web: http://www.hebrewsongs.com

Hebrew Union College - School of Sacred Music

Web main: http://www.huc.edu

Web resources: http://huc.edu/resources.html

Web search engine: http://www.huc.edu/psrch.html

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

see Jewish Music Research Centre, below

History of Jewish Music

Book title: Jewish Music - Its Historical Development

Author: Abraham Z. Idelsohn
Publisher: Dover Publications, New York. 1992.
Format: paperback, 13.7cm W x 21.6cm H, xxii + 535pp, chapter notes, index
ISBN: 0-486-27147-1

Roots of Klezmer, see Klezmer/Lost Trails, below.

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Indexing

American Society of Indexers

Web: http://http://www.asindexing.org

Indiana University School of Music

Web: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

Instruments

Early Musical Instruments

http://www.samedaymusic.com/library--renaissanceinstruments

 

Accordion, concertina, melodeon

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.squeezebox

Bagpipes

Web: http://pipes.tico.com/
Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.bagpipe

Bass

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.bass

Bowed strings

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.bowed-strings

Cello

Jewish cello music, Daniel Kazez:
http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/dkazez/dk/jmu.html

Dulcimer

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.dulcimer

Flute: see Shops/Flute House, below.

French horn

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.french-horn

Guitar

Yona Travel Guitars, Jerusalem: http://www.esek.com/yona/

Discussion group: news:rec.music.classical.guitar
Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.guitar
Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic
Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature

Stick, The: A parallel-strung, 8, 10 or 12 string fretboard tapping instrument which resembles an electric guitar. Designs are based on the revolutionary two-handed tapping method of parallel hands discovered by Emmett Chapman on guitar in 1969 and taught since then to players around the world. stick@earthlink.net. http://www.stick.com

Harps,

Harp of David: http://www.harpofdavid.com/
Extensive notes on history, construction and tuning.
see also Shops/House of Harrari, below.

Harpsichord

Web: http://www.win.tue.nl/scarlatti

Lute

Web: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/lute.html

Percussion

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.percussion

Piano

Piano web-site: http://www.qwpiano.com
Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.piano

Renaissance instruments

Web: http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/cons1/

Synthesizers

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.synth

Theremin

MouSing: http://www.sagebrush.com/mousing.htm Mouse-based theremin simulator
Virtual Theremin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/playground/theremin5.shtml
http://www.thereminsales.cwc.net/

Trumpet

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.trumpet

Violin and other bowed instruments

Web: http://www.seatac.net/dtvz  (David T. Van Zandt)

Woodwind

Discussion group: news:alt.music.makers.woodwind

Instruments, construction of

Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.builders

International Society for Jewish Music

Contact the ISJM via Jewish Music Heritage Trust, below.

Internet Radio

JRock! - Broadcast from Jerusalem

http://www.jrock.virtual.co.il

Nusach Internet Radio

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/nusach/

VJ Radio

http://www.vjradio.com/vjradioindex.htm

Israel Museum

Web: http://www.imj.org.il/

2001: no music resources were found.

Israel, music in

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Web: http://www.ipo.co.il

Music in Israel - Daily listing of all classical music concerts and opera in Israel in English with links to orchestras, choirs, groups and concert halls etc.

Web: http://www.music-lovers.co.il/day_by_day/hi_all.htm
Web: http://www.music-lovers.co.il/

Israeli Folk Dancing

Israeli Dance Experience, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Web: http://home.comcast.net/~reallyrikud/

Israeli Dances

Web: http://www.israelidances.com/

Rikuday Dor Rishon

Founded in 1987, this New York group is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the first generation of Israeli folk dances, from the pre-independence era to the reunification of Jerusalem and the post-Six Day War period.
Web: http://www.rikud.net
E-mail: rdr@rikud.net

Vintage Israeli Folk Dancing

Come dance with us ... in San Diego, California
Web: http://www.members.cox.net/vintageisraelidance/

Israeli Music

Israeli Top 20

Web: http://www.sabra.net/theisraelhour/

Ofra Haza, Singer (1957-2000), Tribute to:

http://www.sabra.net/theisraelhour/ofra.html

Radio Israel:

http://www.radioisrael.com/

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JAMS - Jay's Alternatives in Music Education

Early childhood and pre-school music program using Jewish and
secular source material for children aged 0-6 years:
http://www.jamsnet.com/

Jazz

Judy Lewis Group, Israel: jazz rock fusion

http://www.judylewisgroup.com/

Red-Sea Jazz Festival
Discussion group: news:rec.music.bluenote
Web: http://www.northwestern.edu/jazz

Jewish Community music downloads

http://www.jewish.com/download/music/

Jewish lullabies

Tanja Solnik's From Generation to Generation: A Legacy of Lullabies, traditional Jewish lullabies sung in Ladino, Yiddish and Hebrew.

http://www.tanjasolnik.com/

Eleven lullabies sung in Yiddish. Lyrics and translations. RealAudio link.

Jewish Music Heritage Trust

The JMHT has evolved into the Jewish Music Institute which is based at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University. See next entry.

Jewish Music Institute

From the JMI web-site: The Jewish Music Institute is an independent arts organisation (non-religious), established in March 2000 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after 18 years of successful operation under the name of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust. JMI is a national focus bringing Jewish music to the mainstream British cultural arena for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures.
Web: http://www.jmi.org.uk/

Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Web: http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il

The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, founded in 1964 by Prof. Israel Adler, is dedicated to the documentation, research and publication of scholarly materials about Jewish music.

Research encompasses two main areas: ethnomusicology, which deals with Jewish oral traditions, and historically-oriented research based on written documentation. Collecting and studying all documents pertaining to the musical traditions and the musical life of Jewish communities, past and present are primary tasks of the Centre, as well as, preserving these materials, cataloguing and making them accessible to the scholars and individuals interested in Jewish music. The JMRC carries out many projects in conjunction with institutions and researchers in Israel and abroad.

Please see our unique Thesaurus of Jewish Music, a bibliographic and music source, which may be searched by category, tradition, country or author.

Jewish Music WebCenter, maintained by Judy Pinnolis

Home-page: http://www.jmwc.org/
also Libraries and Archives with Jewish Music Collections

Jewish Music on YouTube

Web: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chasidance&search=Search

Jewish resources

Avrom's Jewish Music Page

     Web: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2923/jmusic.html

Discussion group: news:alt.music.jewish

Discussion group: news:soc.culture.jewish

Discussion group: news:soc.culture.jewish.shoa

Discussion group: news:uk.religion.jewish

Web: http://jewishnet.net/

Web: http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

Web: http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/

Jewish Theological Seminary

Music Archive: http://www.jtsa.edu/library/archives/

Jewish Virtual Library

Break Forth in Melody and Song: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/loc/loc19toc.html

Jewish Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

E-mail: jyo@ort.org
Tel:+44 (0)20-8441 9087.

Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music

at City University, St John's Street, London EC1, U.K.
Contact: Alexander Knapp

Telephone (direct): +44 (0)20-7477 8283.
E-mail: a.v.knapp@city.ac.uk

Early in June 2003 a search of the City University web-site at http://www.city.ac.uk/music/ did not produce any significant references to the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music.

Journals

Journal of Synagogue Music
Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy
     http://www.yu.edu/news/PressReleases/spring99/Belz%20Journal.html
Musica Judaica

Judeo-Spanish Vocal Repertory

Web: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/conferences/esem/wei.html

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Karpel Music Publication

http://www.karpel.net
http://come.to/karpel_music/
Music Publication & Music Notation Service.
There is an English-Hebrew glossary of musical terms.

Klezmer

The Main Klezmer Modes

Extracts from a 62 page article by Josh Horowitz and originally written for publication in Musica Judaica. Includes links to further pages at KlezmerShack.com.
http://music.jdmag.net/~~/Regional_and_Ethnic/Jewish/~~

Ari Davidow's Klezmer page

E-mail: ari@well.sf.ca.us
Web: http://www.klezmershack.com List of bands ranked by name and location, sheet music, instruments.

German Klezmer Page, The

Web: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1791/

House of Musical Traditions - Klezmer

Web: http://www.hmtrad.com/books/klezmer.html
Telephone: +1 301-270 9090
Facsimile: +1 301-270 3010

Lost Trails: Constantin Lupu on the violin

Lost Trails - Shane Solow's recordings of musicians in northern Romania who play archaic melodies which are a prototype for Klezmer music. They learned the melodies from Jewish musicians who lived in this region before the Second World War. They are some of the last performers who know this tradition.

http://www.losttrails.com/

 

Yahoo! page of klezmer links

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/...shortened.../Klezmer/

Klezmer and simcha bands

See also Bands, above
See also Radio/Radio@Netscape, below

BaRock Orchestra, founded 1989

The web-site includes pictures of BaRock players, audio clips and, most unusually,
a page of detailed geographical directions about how to get to the many venues where they perform. Web: http://www.barockorchestra.com/home.asp

Budowitz

http://www.budowitz.com

Cayuga Klezmer Revival (Ithaca, USA)

Web: http://strad.as.arizona.edu/~sstolovy/ckr.html

Chalojmes Klezmer Trio, Zürich, Switzerland.

See Composers/Pogonatos above.

Cincinnati Klezmer Project

Web: http://members.aol.com/klezme2/

The Freylekh Klezmer Dance Band playing at the Soho Festival, London, 9th July 2006

Freylekh Klezmer Dance Band

Based in London, U.K.
Contact: I. Cravitz

David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble

http://www.glukh.com

Into the Freylakh

Based in Detroit area, U.S.A.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bryanp/itf/

Java Jews Klezmer Band of Iowa, U.S.A.

http://javajews.tripod.com/

Kabalas, The (USA)

http://www.qconline.com/kabalas/

Klezmania (Australia)

http://www.klezmania.com.au/, includes audio samples.

Klezmaniacs

circa 2002

Klezmer Connection

Established 1996. Wide variety of Jewish music - klezmer, Yiddish and Israeli, Russian and American (swing, standards, Broadway, jazz); and an a cappella group,focusing on Shomer Shabbat simchas.
http://www.klezmerconnection.com

Klezmer Festival Band, London, U.K.

E-mail: jewishmusic@jmht.org
Telephone: Gregori Schechter, +44 (0)20-8952 2996.

Klezmer for Brass 'n' Wood

Klezmer music for Concert Band and Symphonic Wind Orchestras
http://www.jackmusik.ch
http://www.klezmer.ch

Klezmer Juice, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Audio clips. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/klezmerjuice

Klezmer Swingers, London

Telephone: +44 (0)20-8550 2352.

Klezmerantics, Haarlem, The Netherlands

An eclectic brand of music based in Yiddish tradition
Web: http://www.klezmer.be/

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Available for Simchas large and small, the Kol Haruach Klezmer Band has been performing since 2001. Their diverse repertoire includes Klezmer, Israeli, Jazz and Swing. The five piece touring ensemble has been featured in numerous publications including the Washington Post and the Washington Jewish Week.
http://www.kolharuach.com/cd.htm
Manager: Brian Choper, +1 (0)301-441-8899.

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band (Chicago, USA)

Web: http://www.klezmerband.com

Minsker Kapelye Klezmer Ensemble

Minsk, Belarus.
http://minskerkapelye.narod.ru/ [audio samples]

Moshe's Bagel

Scotland, U.K.
Web: http://www.moishesbagel.co.uk/ [audio samples]

Ot Azoy (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Seen playing with verve in Leicester Square, London W1,
Summer 1997.
Telephone: +31 (0)20 679 5680
Facsimile: +31 (0)20 600 6748

Pannónia Klezmer Band, Hungary

Web: http://www.pannoniaklezmerband.tk/
Web: http://www.pkb.ingyenweb.hu/keret.cgi?/index.html

Rock & Rollmops, London, U.K.

Details to follow.

Shir (United Kingdom)

London-based quartet specialising in Jewish music from Eastern Europe, Israel and the Middle East. http://www.shirmusic.co.uk/

Sokolow, Peter Gary

E-mail: sokolowg@freenet.scri.fsu.edu

Svenska Klezmerföreningen

http://www.klezmer.nu

Tantzunlid Klezma Trio, London, U.K.

Details to follow.

Wholesale Klezmer Band

http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com

Yale Klezmer Band (Yale University student band, USA)

Web: http://www.yale.edu/klezmer/

Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band (Cleveland, USA. Bert Stratton, +1 216-932-3586)

Web: http://www.yiddishecup.com

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Ladino, see Choral / Ladinostalgia, above.

Large Print Music

Popular, classical and religious music. 2.5 x normal size.
For details, please send a stamped addressed envelope to
LPM (London), P.O. Box 47, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 3BD, U.K.

Leining

Books about Leining cantillation, chironomy, neginot, ping-pong

In February 2003, Tom Buchler, writing to the Leining list, referred to Edith Gerson-Kiwi's book "Chironomy."

In January 2003, Jarred Abelson wrote to the Leining list: "The Art of Cantillation" by Joshua Jacobson is published by the Jewish Publication Society. It gives a brief history of chironomy, and the hand signals that are/were used.

In January 2003, Judith Pinnolis wrote in Hasafran: I have a review of "Chanting the Hebrew Bible" by Jacobson on my website. http://www.jmwc.org/jmwc_bookandscore_reviews.html

In January 2003, Amy wrote to hanashir@shamash.org: I learned how to chant by reading "Biblical Chant" by A. W. Binder (Philosophical Library: 1959). I believe you can order it from HUC-JIR.

In December 2002, Tom Buchler wrote to the leining group: "Chanting the Hebrew Bible" by Joshua Jacobson, (c) 2002, The Jewish Publication Society. This 965 page book covers ritual, terminology, a 270 pages of taxonomy of tropes showing how verses are diagrammed into phrases; 75 pages on pronounciation, a 20 page discussion of Masorah, 120 pages describing the cantillation of Torah including melodies and examples, 60 pages regarding parsing the Torah text, 60 pages regarding Haftarah cantillation, and another 200 pages covering High Holidays, special melodies, brachot, and Megillot.

Trope Trainer™ software: http://www.kinnor.com

Leining, the method of chanting when reciting the Torah in shul, is the subject of an active discussion group which is moderated by Rabbi David Grossman.

Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your group settings, and much more by clicking on the Leining link at http://www.geocities.com/jewishgroups.

The Group's leining site is at: http://www.geocities.com/TorahLein.

Get more information by sending a blank e-mail to lein@getresponse.com.

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Another leining discussion group is at http://www.hagigim.com/~~

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See also chanting, chazzanut, cantillation, neginot, ping-pong leining

Library of Congress

Hebraic Section: Web: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/amed/hebraic.html
Performing Arts: Web: http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/
Search Tools: Web: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/tools.html

Listserv, see Mailing Lists, below

Liturgy

http://www.jewfaq.org/liturgy.htm
http://www.cjs.upenn.edu/archive/1/Liturgy.htm
Lubavitch source. Your computer must be sound-enabled:

http://membres.tripod.fr/rselsick/Music.html

Lyrics

FTP:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/music/lyrics-faq
Discussion group: news:alt.music.lyrics (Discussion of song lyrics)

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Mailing lists

Information on more than 70,000 mailing lists:
Web: http://www.liszt.com/

Find 'culture,' then 'jewish,' then 'jewish music,'
or send three-word message info jewish-music to listproc@shamash.org

The word 'lizst' here is a humorous replacement for 'list.'
A variant of computer programming language LISP is called 'Franz Lisp.'

Martin Solomon's Celtic and Klezmer DADGAD guitar web-site

Solomon argues that the Celtic guitar tuning of DADGAD instead of the more familiar EADGBE tuning improves
the sound of klezmer. Transcriptions, audio clips.
Web: http://www.martinz.demon.co.uk/

Maven: Jewish-interest resources in Israel and world-wide, including music.

Web: http://www.maven.co.il/
Web: http://www.MavenSearch.com

Maven-announce
A 'several times a month' e-mail listing of Jewish-interest Internet resources, including music. To subscribe, go to either of the two Maven web-sites above and click on the SUBSCRIBE button.

MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface:

Discussion group: news:alt.music.midi
Web: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/

MIDI Archives:

Israeli Jewish MIDI Music Library

Web: http://members.aol.com/israelmidi/  Israeli, Jewish, Yiddish, Hebrew
Web: http://www.prs.net/midi.html   Classical MIDI archives

Movies, see Films, above

MP3

The term MP3 is derived from Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
MPEG refers to a group of digital video compression standards whereby file compression is achieved by
recording only the changes in succeeding frames.
Motion Picture - [level] 3 (MP3) is a standard whereby files are compressed by removing those parts of
the audio data which are inaudible to the human ear.

MP3.com: http://MP3.com/

Software: http://software.mp3.com/software/
Hardware: http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/
Services: http://www.mp3.com/services.html

MP3.org: http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/mp3.html

Secure Digital Music Initiative, The (SDMI):

Information, FAQ: http://www.sdmi.org/

Webmonkey's Find/Play MP3 Guide:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/guides/mp3/index.html

ZDNet: MP3 Guide:

http://www.zdnet.com/products/audio/mp3.html

Napster:

This program is a web-spider. You tell it what music you are looking for and
it then searches its index of Napster users to find the music. Napster does
not itself hold music files for distribution. The users, using the Napster browser,
decide whether or not make files available for supply to other Napster users.
The original source of the music may be a copyrighted CD.
http://www.napster.com/

Macster: Napster for the Apple Mac:

http://www.blackholemedia.com/macster/

Gnutella:

Unlike Napster which maintains a centralised index of users, Gnutella is
a free program which is also completely decentralised in the way it operates.
Music, images and texts may be exchanged. Copyright appears to have no defence
against this system.

Music Festivals

New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival, 13-25 Sep 2005: http://oyhoo.com/

"Music From God"

A project whereby "... decoding the Hebrew letters of the Torah into their own musical notes, we have made the power of the original Hebrew text of the Bible available in the universal language of music." Audio clips.
Web: http://www.musicfromgod.com/

Music Library Association (USA)

Web: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/

Listserv: listname: mla-l
Subscribe: listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
Send message: subscribe mla-l your_forename your_surname

Music software

ABC musical notation system: http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
CTI Music downloadable software: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/music/research/sware.html
Millennium Music Software: http://www.millennium-music.co.uk/
Mozart Music Processor: http://www.mozart.co.uk/
Music Publisher: http://www.braeburn.co.uk/mp.htm
Rosegarden: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
Sibelius Software: http://www.sibelius.com/

C-Thru-Music: http://www.c-thru-music.org/

Music Styles List

An enormous musical resource with a fairly good indexing method; click on 'styles,' then on 'world,' then on 'Jewish.' Its Jewish section contains pages of links to Chazzanut, Klezmer and Performers.
Web: http://www.music-styles-list.com/Top_Arts_Music_Styles_World_Jewish.html

MuSICA Database - science and theory of music.

Web: http://www.musica.uci.edu/

Musica Judaica

Editor: Dr. Arbie Orenstein arbieo@aol.com

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

See MIDI, above.

Musicians

Bart Berman

Israeli concert pianist, internationally active. American Record Guide: "one of the premier Schubert interpreters of our time."
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1938/

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National Sound Archive (UK), part of the British Library.

Web: http://portico.bl.uk/
Web: http://bl.uk/collections/music
Web: http://bl.uk/collections/sound-archive
Sound files are in RealAudio format.There is a button to download RealPlayer software.

Neginot (cantillation marks):

An outstanding resource is that compiled by Helmut Richter at ...

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~hr/teamim/

Eliezer Segal's page offers audio clips for all neginot for Torah and Haftarah:

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Cantillation/Chanting.html

See Cantillation, above.

New Israeli Opera

E-mail: opera@mail.israel-opera.co.il
Web: http://www.israel-opera.co.il/

Nigun Society for the promotion and exploration of Jewish Music

Web: http://sti1.uni-duisburg.de/Nigun/English/

 

Editor's note: According to legend, Bubba Fraiga, a celebrated nineteenth-century Galician kneidel-macher, used to hum a nigun when kneading the dough. Its duration and cadence ensured that her kneidlach had the optimum succulence and firmness. You may perhaps find further details about this song and also the little-known 'matza nigun,' a descant or round for nine voices lasting no more and no less than precisely eighteen minutes, on discussion group: rec.food.cuisine.jewish MatzahMan, a battery-operated dancing doll (amputated legs) which also apparently sings "Matzarena" is available from http://www.brochins.com/shop_theme.shtml#Passover.

Nigunim - Bobov Broadcast

Heimische Bobover nigunim
http://www.bobovbroadcast.com/

Nigunim at JewishAudio.org

Dozens of audio files.
English: http://www.chassidus.com/audio/enign/
English introduction by the Rebbe: http://www.chassidus.com/audio/nigreb/
Yiddish: http://www.chassidus.com/audio/nigun/

North American Jewish Choral Festival

Web: http://uahc.org/music/choral/

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Opera and theatre

All About Jewish Theatre: http://www.jewish-theatre.com/

Listserv: listname: opera-l

Subscribe: listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Send message: subscribe opera-l forename surname

Discussion group: news:rec.arts.theatre.musicals

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Performing Rights, Royalties, etc.

Australian Performing Right Association:http://www.apra.com.au/
BMI [faulty address, 25 June 2000]: http://www.BMI.com
Performing Right FAQ: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/Copyright/faqperf.htm
Performing Right Society (UK): http://www.prs.co.uk/Home
SESAC (USA): http://www.sesac.com/
Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers, Canada.

English/French site. List of performing rights organisations.
http://www.socan.ca/

Personalities:

See also "Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent " listed under Books, above.
Many of the names listed below were copied from The Dictionary of Jewish Biography,
by Geoffrey Wigoder, ISBN:0-13-210105-X. Some others were copied from http://www.choralnet.org/music/

Adler, Samuel Hans and Halevy, Jacques (see Halevy, below)

Psalm 118, Min Hameitsar

Alexandrovich, Misha

Russian cantor and singer. Died 2002 aged 88.
CD from Hatikvah Music (323) 655-7083. Klezcorner@aol.com

Alkabiz, Solomon

Bajgelman, Dawid (Baigelman, David)

Born 1888, Ostrowiec. Died 1944, Auschwitz. Violinist, conductor, composer. [more]

Beimel, Jacob

refers to Beimel: http://www.jhom.com/topics/choir/zamir.htm
refers to Beimel: http://www.jtsa.edu/library/news/btl/btl12_2.html

Berlin, Irving, songwriter (1888-1989)

Irving Berlin Music Company: http://www.irvingberlin.com/berlin/index.html

Biography by Seymour Brody: http://www.us-israel.org/.../berlin.html

Irving Berlin: In and Out of Tune: http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/berlin.htm

Berstein, Leonard, composer and conductor (1918-1990)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbarticle1.html

Bloch, Ernst, composer and teacher (1880-1959)

http://www.schirmer.com/composers/bloch_bio.html
http://www.koussevitzky.com/Html/composers.html#Bloch
http://www.karadar.it/Works/bloch.html

Bogdanski, Majer. Tailor, musician and folklorist.

Born Poland, 1912, died London, 2005.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1567662,00.html

Cohen, Herman, married daughter of L. Lewandowski

Cohon

Copland, Aaron, composer

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/24/copland.house/

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, librettist (1749-1838)

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/03433.html
http://www.unitel.classicalmusic.com/uhilites/150899.htm
http://www.logopoeia.com/anecdotes/archive.html

Damrosch family (of musicians)

Clara Damrosch: 
http://www.search.eb.com/.../Mannes_Clara_Damrosch.html [password needed]
http://www.utc.edu/~wlee/helpfulbooks.html

Damrosch, Leopold, violinist and composer

Damrosch, Walter Johannes

Einstein, Albert, violinist and physicist

... and the violin: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1378/einstein.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/10.html#Einstein_20

Elman, Mischa, violinist

http://dir.songsearch.com/ss/dir/e/elman_mischa.htm
http://www.musicandarts.com/CD4868hi.html
http://www.78rpm.com/vra26/clasus.htm

Feurmann, Emanuel, cellist

Gershwin, George, composer

100 Years of Gershwin: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/penumbra1/

Adissi's Gershin web-site (English/Portguese): http://users.sti.com.br/adissi/

Goldfaden, Abraham, composer plus other activities

http://www.jewishmusic.com/ydihe01b.htm
http://www.library.brandeis.edu/...shortened.../yiddishSheetMusic.html
http://www.zamir.org/composers/GoldfadenAvrohomfolkWarshawsky.html

Goldmark, Karl, composer, music teacher (1830-1915)

http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2000/03/rbgoldmk.htm
http://www.mmmagency.com/html/ost-0296.htm

Goodman, Benny, clarinetist and bandleader

http://home.flash.net/~rdreagan/index.shtml
http://Bigbands.tripod.com/index.html

Halevy, Jacques and Adler, Samuel Hans (see Adler, above)

Psalm 118, Min Hameitsar

Halpern, Feliks Rafal

Born 1866, Lodz. Died 1942, Lodz Ghetto. Composer, pianist, musical critic. [more]

Heifetz, Jascha, violinist (1900-1987)

Biography by Tim Page: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/14/sept95/page.htm
..as accordian player: http://www.accordian.com/Heifetz.html

Hess, Myra, pianist (1890-1965)

Higgins, Andrea Jill

Shehecheyanu

Horowitz, Vladimir, pianist (married Toscanini's daughter Wanda) (1903-1989)

http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/horowitz_vladimir/
http://home.netvigator.com/~joelamkt/horowitz.html
http://dir.yahoo.com/.../Horowitz__Vladimir__1903_1989_/

Hosmer

Huberman, Bronislaw, violinist (1882-1947)

Patrick Harris' Huberman page: http://www.huberman.info/
http://www.arbiterrecords.com/notes/105notes.html
http://www.musicandarts.com/CD4299.html
http://www.uni-lueneburg.de/memory/whoswho/BioFileH.HTML

Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi, musicologist

Jacobson, Joshua

Mah Nishtanah, Psalm 114, Saleynu (Celebrate), Shavu'ot

James, Harry, trumpet player, band leader (1916-1983)

http://au.yahoo.com/Entertainment/...path shortened.../James__Harry__1916_1983_/
http://www.bigbandrecordlibrary.com/hjames.html

Jolson, Al, entertainer, singer

http://www.jolson.org/

Katz, Shalom, cantor

Kern, Jerome, composer

Show Boat: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm32.html

King David, harpist

Kiss, Josef, poet, wrote ''Jewish Songs'' book of poetry

Klemperer, Otto, conductor

http://www.concentric.net/~Onk145/Video.htm
http://www.concentric.net/~Onk145/Klemperer.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/07015.html

Kousevitsky, Serge, conductor

Kwartin, Zavel, cantor

Landowska, Wanda, harpsichordist

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/07187.html
http://www.jsbach.org/welltempered1.html
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/landowsk.html

Lewandowski, Louis, composer and conductor (b. Wreschen 1821, d. Berlin 1894)

http://www.zamir.org/composers/LewandowskiLouis.html
http://www.zamir.org/cds/majesty-notes.html
http://www.jtsa.edu/pubs/jtsmag/vol7iss1/avsh.html

Loewenstamm, M.

Mahler, Gustav, composer and conductor (1860-1911)

Mendelssohn-Bartoldy, Felix, composer (1809-1847)

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, composer (1791-1864)

Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)

Naumberg/Naumbourg, S. arranger

Nelson, Rachelle

Shehecheyanu

Offenbach, Jacques/Jakob, composer (1819-1880)

Oistrakh, David Fedorovich, violinist (1908-1974)

Ormandy, Eugene (born Jeno Blau, Budapest), conductor (1899-1985)

Peerce, Jan (Jacob Pincus Perelmuth), 1904-1984. Tenor and violinist

Piatigorsky, Gregor, cellist (1903-1976)

Pik, T.

Shehecheyanu

Porges, Heinrich. 1837-1900. Disciple of Richard Wagner [more]

Rach, Jochim, composer, Germany (circa 1850)

Richards, Stephen (1935-)

Avadim Hayinu, Eliyahu Hanavi

Rogers, Richard (& Hammerstein), composer (1902-1979)

Romberg, Sigmund, composer (1887-1951)

Rose, Billy, songwriter and other activities (1899-1966)

Rosenblatt, Joseph, cantor and composer (1882-1933)

Rosenfeld, Morris, poet and songwriter (1862-1923)

Rossi, Salomon de, composer (1570-1630)

Adon Olam
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Rossi.html
http://www.zamir.org/Italy/HarranRossi.shtml

Rubenstein, Anton Grigoryevich, pianist, composer (1829-1894)

Rubenstein, Arthur, pianist (1887-1982)

Sachs, Curt, German musicologist, authority on instruments (1881-1959)

Schalit, Heinrich

Psalm of Thanksgiving

Schlesinger, S.

Schmidt, Joseph, Romanian tenor (1904-1942)

http://www.chazzanut.com/schmidt.html

Schnabel, Artur, pianist and composer (1882-1951)

Schoenberg, Arnold, composer (1874-1951)

Schorr, Boruch

Schorr, Israel

Sirota, Gershon Isaac, cantor (1874-1943)

Solomon

Pit'chu Li

Straus, Oscar, operetta composer

Stark, Edward

Stein

Steinberg, Ben

Selections from Hallel (Psalms 113-118), Shehecheyanu, Zeh Hayom

Stern, Isaac

One of the greatist violinists of the 20th century. Born Soviet Union, 1920. Moved to Los Angeles, 1921. Died Manhattan, 2001.

Strassburg, Robert (1915-):

Psalm 117

Sulzer, Solomon, cantor, composer (1804-1890)
Halleluya (Psalm 111)

Szell, George, conductor, composer (1897-1970)

Szigeti, Joseph, violinist (1892-1973)

Tauber, Richard, tenor (1892-1948)

Tertis, Lionel, violinist (1876-1975)

Tucker, Richard, tenor and cantor (1913-1975)

Tucker, Sophie, singer and entertainer (1884-1966)

Wald, F.

Walter, Bruno. Conductor (1876-1962)

Weill, Kurt, composer (1900-1950)

Weintraub, H.

Wieniawski, Henryk, violinist and composer (1835-1880)

Yose Ben Yose, Hebrew liturgical poet (5th-6th century)

Photographic record of Jazz by Ray Avery

Web: http://www.bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/Jazz/jazz.html

Ping-pong leining

Not the game known as table-tennis, but derived from the side-to-side head movements of the spectators. Ping-pong in the Jewish world refers to the chanting of the Sefer Torah when the reader uses a Chumash with cantillation marks as a guide to trop whilst reading from the unmarked scroll. The reader would point normally with the shamash in the right hand whilst glancing quickly at the Chumash lying on the reading desk at the left side of the scroll.

See also Leining, above.

 
Literary minded readers of this page may have read "The Mighty Waltzer" by Howard Jacobson. It is about the author's youth and tells about his development into an expert table-tennis player. Whether he also became an expert leiner was not stated.

Pinnolis: Judy Pinnolis' Jewish Music WebCentre

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Radio

Streaming Jewish Music:

http://www.jewishbroadcast.com/

Radio@Netscape™

A klezmer station is provided by the eponymous browser company. Click on http://www.netscape.com. Then, click on the radio button. Then, in the stations list, click on 'world' to reveal the klezmer button. The selections are drawn from more than 100 albums. This is a marvellous audio resource.
Click here for a partial list of Radio@Netscape's recent output.

Nusach - Jewish soul music: http://www.angelfire.com/art2/nusach

Web: http://wnwr.com [Off-line, 2 June 2003]

Yiddish Voice:

WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, Massachusetts USA
Listen live, Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 p.m. (GMT-4)
Web: http://www.yiddishvoice.com

Rap

Zionist Rap - Sales proceeds in aid of soldiers 'Missing In Action' in defence of Israel.

http://www.antithesistherapper.com

Reform Synagogues of Great Britain

Music to accompany the new RSGB Siddur, 2005:
http://www.reformsiddur.org.uk/music.php

Rice University Fondren Library

Brown Fine Arts Library - Music Resources: http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Brown/music/music.html

Royal College of Music (London)

No Jewish-interest content. No search facilities.
Web: http://www.rcm.ac.uk/

Royal Academy of Music (London)

You will get much more information from the Telnet link than from the web-site.
Telnet is a pre-Windows non-mouse system and may present you with unfamiliar options. It relies upon typed data entry via the alphabet and number keys, the cursor keys and the return (enter) key. It is easy to use and if you are clever enough to use Internet Explorer or Netscape then you should have no difficulty with Telnet. In its time it gave easy, swift access to enormous on-line resources and may still do so.
Telnet: telnet://lib.ram.ac.uk
     login: library; a password is not needed.
Web: http://www.ram.ac.uk/

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Schools and conservatories of Jewish music

Ron Shulamit Music Conservatory

     Based in Jerusalem, Israel. Since 1910 has provided quality music and dance education, while bringing the arts to communities across Jerusalem and Israel as a whole, through performances by its ballet troupes, chamber orchestras (including an accordian orchestra), ensembles, and youth choirs.
     The Conservatory now offers a BA degree in Music Education programme for girls, and its "Renaissance of Jewish Music Preservation Project" continues to work to research, record and perform traditional Jewish music from around the world.
 
Telephone: +972 2-652-8531
E-mail: shir@ronshulamit.org.il
Web: http://www.ronshulamit.org.il

Search Engines

Searching for information with a search engine usually involves getting a great deal of unwanted information. To an extent one can reduce the unwanted references by the use of appropriate search keywords:

1. jewish music
2. "jewish music"
3. jewish AND music
4. jewish AND music NOT pop
5. +jewish +music -pop
6. niggun
7. jewish AND liturg

Sepharadic Pizmonim - Sepharadic Cantorial pieces

Web: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6256/
Cantorial pieces, songs and melodies in Ladino, Hebrew,
Judeo-Arabic, French and Spanish. Slow to load.

Sephardic culture and music

Web: http://www.bsz.org/bszmain.htm
Web: http://www.bsz.org/seph-music.htm

Sephardic music

These details and links were kindly provided by Judy Pinnolis
E-mail: pinnolis@brandeis.com, Web: http://www.jmwc.org/
 

BSZNet: Gateway to Sephardic Resources. Visit the BSZ Hall of Music!
     http://www.bsz.org/bszmain.htm
     http://www.613.org/music/niggun.html
 

Moroccan Tunes, part of the Sephardic-Moroccan Page
     http://www.jewishglobe.com/Morocco/
 

Tzimmes: a performing group. Moshe Denberg has mounted an excellent history

of Jewish music and included a lot of info on Sephardic music.
http://www.tzimmes.net
http://www.tzimmes.net/jm.html

 

Judith Cohen's website: a musicologist and performer:
     http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/judithc/judith_cohen.htm
 
Judy Frankel's website. Her singing is delightful.
     http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/artists/jfart.html
 

Za'atar, a group dedicated to Sephardic and Moroccan music
     http://geocities.com/soho/exhibit/3145/
 

Sephardim on records: see:
     http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/era45513.htm
 

There is also a new book by Kay Shelemay called Let Jasmine Rain Down.
It has an extensive bibliography and should lead one to places of sephardic
score music.

Seventeenth Century Music, Journal of

Web: http://www.sscm.harvard.edu/jscm/Welcome.html

Shemay Israel, Jewish music and groups

Web: http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/music/

Shlomo Project

Downloadable MP3 tracks containing some Jewish content.
Web: http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/shlomoproject

Shofar

The repertoire of the shofar is generally limited to the bugle-like sounds which accompany the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services in the synagogue.
 
Birthrightisrael.com's Shofar Idol: http://www.danmeth.com/shofaridol.htm
 
Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. Kriat Hashofar: http://shalomdch.org/flash_shofar.swf
 
Arthur Finkel, author of The Shofar Sounders Reference Manual and Easy Guide to Shofar Sounding has produced a fascinating web-site: http://www.geocities.com/afinkle221/
 
Michael Chusid, is "an experienced ba’al tekiah – shofar master blaster – and author of Hearing Shofar: The Still Small Voice of the Ram’s Horn. He has taught shofar at Hebrew Union College, American Jewish University, and throughout the US and Canada." His shofar web-site is at http://www.hearingshofar.com/.
 
Scott S. Riggi's Shofar timekeeping apparatus and method, 2007:

• www.patentstorm.us: patent description
• www.freepatentsonline.com: patent description

 
Playable 6-hole shofar: http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/shofar.htm [includes an audio clip]. This modified shofar would not be kosher for use on the Yomtovim. However, since the Tekiah Gadola blasts of the kosher shofar signal the formal end of Yom Kippur, I should then love to hear a shofar rendering of Hatikvah.
 
Hear the various shofar notes:

http://www.joi.org/celebrate/rosh/shofar.shtml
http://www.holidays.net/highholydays/shofar.htm

Shops

Flute House - discount sales, repairs (Israel)

Web: http://www.flute-house.co.il/

Freetown Records

Web: http://www.freetownrecords.com/pages/b_jewish_music.php

Ganeydn Jewish Art and Music

Web: http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn/

Hatikvah Music:

+1 (323) 655-7083
Klezcorner@aol.com
http://www.hatikvahmusic.com/whatsnew1.html
Sephardic, Klezmer, Cantorial, Yiddish, Israeli CD and video titles.

Hed Arzi Records

Web: http://www.hed-arzi.co.il/

House of Harrari - Biblical harps

Web: http://www.harrariharps.com

Israel-Music

Web: http://www.israel-music.com/

Jarden Jewish Bookshop

Krakow, Poland.
Music (Klezmer CD's)
E-mail: jarden@jarden.pl
Web: http://www.jewish-bookshop.com/
Web: http://www.JARDEN.pl

Jewish Music Distribution

Jewish music-oriented books, cassettes, CD's.
P.O. Box 67, Hailsham, BN27 4UW, U.K.
Telephone / Facsimile: 0800-7811 686, +44 (0)1323-832863.
E-mail: orders@jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk
Web: http://www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk/

Mostly Music

http://www.mostlymusic.com
Excellent indexing of site contents. Downloads, sheet music, albums, songs, etc. Several rabbinic commentaries regarding the halachic implications of copying and downloading.

Past Perfect - digitally re-mastered 1920's, 1930's, 1940's music.

Web: http://pastperfect.com

SABRA Music Center

Web: http://www.sabra.net

Sounds Write

Curiously, this Jewish music web-site does not depict any overtly Jewish imagery or symbols in its design. The names of the artistes are 100% kosher!
http://www.soundswrite.com/

StagePass

http://www.stagepass.com. A retail site offering an enormous array of books and
other musical resources. The site has an integral search engine. I entered various
search keys to determine the number of book items retrieved.Search keys and
results: hassidic=7 hebrew=19, israel=17, jew*=210, jewish=188, klezmer=24,
ladino=2, yiddish=8.

Tara - World of Jewish Music

Web: http://www.jewishmusic.com/index.htm

Worldwide Success Records

http://www.wwsrecords.com

Singers

Alan Lieberman composes tunes and lyrics and sings with guitar accompaniment:

Web: http://www.allanlieberman.com/

Rachelle Shubert - Contemporary and Traditional Judaic Songs of Love and Inspiration

Web: www.rachelleshubert.com.

Nomi Teplow (Israeli vocalist. Contemporary Jewish music concerts in Israel and U.S.A.

Web-site includes lyrics, audio files): http://www.nomi.co.il

Society for the Promotion of Jewish Liturgical Music

No details are currently available [July 2004] but there is a reference to the Society at http://www.tlcs.org.uk/patron.htm.

Song-leading

Shir B'Yachad Jewish song group

Meets once a month in the London, U.K., area and welcomes everyone who enjoys singing to learn, teach and share Jewish songs of all types, learning informally by ear using song sheets with transliterated words. All levels of musical ability welcome, including none. Led by experienced song leaders and teachers. Informal and friendly atmosphere. Cost £3. Get more information from Diane [diane@major7th.com].

Hava Nashira

Jewish music of the people, by the people, and for the people of the Hava Nashira songleaders' community
Web: http://www.hotshabbat.com

Song writing

• WriteSongs4You.com: customised Bar and Bat Mitzvah songs on a CD with the name of the child in the song lyrics. Also can change lyrics to fit family situation and readings that will be chanted at the service. Personalised CD labels.
  Web: http://www.writesongs4you.com/custombarmitz
• Songwriting.1st4art.com provides an extensive list of general links. Many lead to tutorials and information pages about the process and business aspects of song-writing: http://www.songwriting.1st4art.com/songwriting/
• Discussion group: news:rec.music.makers.songwriting

Songs

GreatJewishMusic.com: a site to learn Jewish songs through MIDI and audio samples.
Links to resources for on-line Jewish music.
Web: http://www.greatjewishmusic.com

Sound archives

Discussion group: news:alt.binaries.sounds.d discussion
Discussion group: news:alt.binaries.sounds.music

Steganography

This has nothing at all to do with dinosaurs. The name is derived from the Greek stegein grajein or "covered writing." It is the science of hiding data within other data. Digitised music and pictures are ideal media for this purpose. Uses of steganography include hiding your name, serial numbers and copyright information in various places in your digitised music in the hope that it may prove valuable in court against counterfeiters. The hidden data is almost impossible to detect. The process is also known as watermarking and fingerprinting. The brand-name 'Steganos' is in use [2002] for a computer security product.
 
Web: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/steganography/
Web: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/steganography/mp3stego/
Web: http://www.glaurung.demon.co.uk/checkpoint/stegano.html
British Computer Society - Software Protection Specialist Group:

http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/softprot/overview.htm

 
A book which deals extensively with this subject is Disappearing Cryptography by Peter Wayner. ISBN: 0-12-738671-8.

Symposium on Jewish Music, Edinburgh, 1996

Web: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/conferences/jewish.html

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Tallis

Tallis Consultancy

A service offered by British Telecommunications PLC. It has
nothing to do with Thomas Tallis, music or talleisim.

Talis.com

... is an information services company which provides library management systems.

Tangele

See Yiddish/Tangele, below

Transcontinental Music Publications

This is a division of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
It is the largest publisher of Jewish choral and solo music in
North America.
Web: http://www.shamash.org/reform/uahc/transmp/

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Union of American Hebrew Congregations - Music

http://uahc.org/music/index.html

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Videos

See Films, above.

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Women in Jewish Music

International Alliance for Women in Music search engine
Use 'jewish' as search key:

Web: http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/search.html

Karen Daniel: http://members.home.net/karendaniel/
Judy Caplan Ginsburgh: http://www.judymusic.com/ Also offers simultaneous singing + signing.
Women Cantor's Network members' pages:

http://www.womencantors.net/members_links.html
See also Cantors, Women Cantors Network, above

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Yahoo! Jewish music page of links

Web: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Country_or_Culture/Jewish/

Yiddish:

A Sudenyu Of Yiddish Song

Web: http://dynrec.com/bonnieabrams/bonnie2.html

Gilbert & Sullivan plays in Yiddish: see Gilbert & Sullivan Archive, above.
 
Helen Winkler's Yiddish Dance Page

http://www.angelfire.com/ns/helenwinkler
http://www.yiddishdance.com

Hollander Booksellers - Yiddish sheet music:

http://www.hollanderbooks.com/cat7mus.htm

The Jewish Culture and the Yiddish language

http://www.usa-people-search.com/~

Jozef der gasnsinger

Yiddish song archive. Sheet music in PDF format
http://members.lycos.co.uk/yiddish/

Kame'a music web-site

Web: http://www.kamea.com

Lithuanian Jews revive Yiddish, by Laura Sheeter, BBC News, Vilnius [30-1-2007]

http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/1/hi/world/6303057.stm

Medem-Bibliotek is the largest library and archive of Yiddish books

and material in Western Europe.
E-mail: medem@club-internet.fr

Mendele

This is a Yiddish-interest e-mail newsletter. Frequent music
discussions, often about Klezmer, in English and Yiddish.
Subscribe: listproc@lists.yale.edu
        Send message: commands
Web: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele
Web: http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/mendele.html

Nikos Pogonatos - Pianist, Yiddish music

E-mail: nikos.music@hispeed.ch
Web: http://www.nikos-pogonatos.ch/. Audio clips.
SOURCE: Mavensearch, 20 April 2004

Nizza Thobi ("Forget Klesmer - Nizza Thobi revives Yiddish!")

Web: http://www.nizza-thobi.com/
Audio: http://www.powermusicagency.de/kuenstler/nizzathobi/film3.html

Oxford Institute of Yiddish Studies

Web: http://www.oxf-inst.demon.co.uk
E-mail: yiddishstudies@oxf-inst.demon.co.uk

Robert Freedman Yiddish Song Database

Web: http://www.cs.uky.edu/raphael-cgi-bin/yidsong.cgi

Shtetl

Web: http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/shtetl.html

Tangele

A project led by Lloica Czackis who is an Argentinian Jewish singer based in London. Tangele involves research into and performance of Yiddish Tango. Several performances and talks are due to take place in London and Newcastle during the second half of 2003. See the diary at http://www.lloicaczackis.com/diary.htm
Web: http://www.lloicaczackis.com/tangele.htm

Yiddish on computers - Understanding Yiddish Information Processing

Mailing list, information: http://www.uyip.org

Yiddish-American music

Dave Tarras / Yiddish-American Music, 1925 - 1956
Web: http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/tarras/music/tarras.music.html

Yiddish Is Forever: http://www.yiddish-is-forever.com

October 2002: Yiddish Is Forever, a 3 CD-box, 48 songs, more than 3 hours of music.

Yiddish Melodies - Mame-Loshn 2000: Illustrations to the Moisey Beregovskys' song collection

http://ibiblio.org/yiddish/AV/av-ym.html

YiddishNet e-mail newsletter

Editor: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky reyzl@flash.net
Archive: http://www.shamash.org/listarchives/yiddishnet/
Subscription details: http://shamash.org/listform.html

or send the two-word message info yiddishnet to listproc@shamash.org

Yiddish Voice, The [Internet radio]

WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, Massachusetts USA
Listen live, Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 p.m. (GMT-4)
Web: http://www.yiddishvoice.com

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Zemerl - Jewish Song Database

Web: http://www.princeton.edu/zemerl/
An interactive, comprehensive on-line database of Jewish songs,
including lyrics, information, sound clips, and other on-line resources
for Jewish music.
Source: Maven, 25 May 1999