Hebrew University’s Jewish Music Research Center regularly publishes works in the journal Yuvaland a monograph series on Jewish music. These publications provide superb and detailed academic sources in Jewish music. Top notch scholarship goes into these academic publications.
http://www.jewish-music.org/PublicationList.asp
Abbi Wood, currently completing a PhD thesis on Yiddish folk song in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK, has compiled a bibliography on Yiddish music. Texts are primarily from English language sources. Bibliography broken into genres, thematic and subject-oriented sections.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/wood_yiddish_a2z_biblio.html
Helen Winkler has compiled a Jewish music and Jewish dancebibliography from yizkir bikher–memorial books, written after the Holocaust tocommemorate communities that were destroyed. This bibliography was posted on the “KlezmerShack”
:http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/winkler/yizkorlinks.html
Written for: A la memoria del Maestro Paul Bénichou. An English tranlation provided by Google, is linked here: translation in pdf . Also: OBSERVACIONES SOBRE EL ROMANCERO SEFARDÍ DE TRADICIÓN ORAL – MOTIVOS MÍTICOS Y FOCO TEMÁTICO
http://parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Revista/Revista6/AMPARO_RICO/weich-shahak.htm
An online article from JTS Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1997 by Neil Levin. Traces German Jewish cantorial music and its transference to the US. Describes concerts that took place in NY as part of a conference in 1997 called “Voice of Ashkenaz–The Music and Culture of German and Central European Jewry: Remembrance and Renewal.”
http://www.jtsa.edu/news/jtsmag/7.1/vsh.shtml
Alice Tischler’s collection of music by Israeli composers, gathered for her book, are now part of a special collection at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music. This collection is not yet catalogued, but is described as vast. For more information, see her book, A descriptive bibliography of art music by Israeli composers in our library’s collection.
Music Reference ML120 .I75 T57 1988
Velvel Pasternak has written an extensive article which is published on the Tara Music website. It provides an overview and history of various types of chassidic music and its role in the Jewish life and customs of that community.
http://www.tara.com/cgi-bin/vsc/articl02.htm?L+tarashop+vsjk7270+877113102
Judith Cohen, a Toronto-based musicologist and specialist in Sephardic music, has compiled a brief discography and bibliography.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/9903.cohen_j.sephardic.html
Scholarly article with full references and discography.
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/MA/index/number3/bohlman/bohl_0.htm
Article by Edwin Seroussi from Music & Anthropology: Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean. Extensive scholarly article with pictures, bibliography and discography.
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/MA/index/number3/seroussi/ser_0.htm
by Paul Vernon. This article was originally published in the magazine FolkROOTS. Discusses the rise of Jewish cantors, recordings, and their success in turn of the twentieth century in America. Focuses especially on Rosenblatt, Hershman and Kwartin. Touches on klezmer and European recording, as well. Copyright belongs to the author, Paul Vernon. Electronic edition by Lars Fredriksson, April 17, 1997.
http://www.laddersofsong.com/Prayer.htm
The Polish Music Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2003 has a special issue devoted to Polish-Jewish music. Full text of all the abstracts, articles, and author biographies appear. In addition to articles, several source texts appear with translations into English of writings and letters from Jewish Polish musicians. ISSN 1521 – 6039
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issues.html
Table of Contents listed. “Orbis Musicae is an international musicological journal published by the Department of Musicology of Tel-Aviv University…While the journal publishes articles and books 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 emphasise the music of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin. The articles in Orbis Musicae are often illustrated with musical examples and other material.”
http://www.tau.ac.il/arts/publications/orbis.html
Indiana University School of Music. An alphabetical arrangement with major links to excellent general musical studies sources. These links lead to most major academic sources in music history and organizations on the web. Updated frequently. Recommended site.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/mcology.html
A highly selective, very focused bibliography which includes books, articles, music collections, selected recordings, scores and texts.
http://www.zamir.org/resources/holocaust.html
Article appearing in Music and Anthropology: Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean, vol. 7, 2002. An online journal with full text of the article available to the public.
http://www.muspe.unibo.it/period/MA/index/number7/seroussi/ser_00.htm
Josh Horowitz is a musicologist and tsimbl player living in Austria who works extensively with early Klezmer instruments. His extensive article on klezmer modes is scheduled to be published in a scholarly journal. This online article summarizes and explains the theoretical base, the main types of modes and the modal progressions in European klezmer music.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/horowitz/horowitz.klezmodes.html
Leonard Lehrman writes about his life working with the music of Marc Blitzstein, which appeared in the August 17, 2001 edition of The Forward.
http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.08.17/arts4.html
by Abba Lande. Translated by Roslyn Sherman Greenberg. Partial text from the yizkor book from the town of Lida, Belarus. Part of the Jewish Gen.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/lida/lid264.html
From musicologist Bob Cohen, has a three part history of Jewish music in Romania.
http://www.dinayekapelye.com/jmromania.htm
A PDF file. An online article of a reprint from Ktav Publishers in 1980 of the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Memeorial Volume. The Berman article is in English, discussing the issue of “kol isha”, a woman’s voice, and the source of the proscription against Jewish women singing in front of men and in other situations.
http://www.edah.org/docs/Kol%20Isha.pdf
An article by Gerben Zaagsma translated into English from the Dutch and published in Historisch Tijdschrift 143/32 (december 1998) 223-230, is now available online. It concerns the history of a Jewish folk music guild from the seventeenth and eighteenth century Prague.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/zaagsma.prague.html
Article from LookSmart on the ancient temple musicians.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0411/4_47/54600119/p1/article.jhtml
David Conway, a post graduate student in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London has mounted a series of essays and information about European Jewish composers, mainly in the nineteenth century, such as Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn and Halevy, Alkan, Moscheles and so on.
http://www.smerus.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm
History of Jewish music with liturgical samples online. Much of the article is taken from a book by Eliyahu Schleiffer, who is head of the Cantorial school for HUC in Jerusalem. Other articles come from other scholarly books.
http://www.liturgica.com/html/litJLit.jsp?hostname=liturgica
An online source of history on Jewish hymnody. The page gives a summary history, with credit to several good encyclopedias. The page is primarily concerned with Biblical history and performance practice. It is put up by Smith Creek Music in Nashville, TN.
http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Jewish.Hymnody/Jewish.Liturgical.Music.html
This website is dedicated to Jewish folklore, mainly in Israel, and of many different groups from around the world. The site brings up-to-date news of publications in the field of Jewish folklore. These includes tables of contents, links to academic departments and institutions including the Israel Folktale Archive at University of Haifa, and periodicals in Hebrew and English. Some sets of tables of contents service to journals such as Yuval, of the Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem, and other journals containing articles on dance and Jewish music.
http://www.folklore.org.il/books.htm
This website is devoted to various histories of music. This section gives eight divisions on some history of Jewish music, from an individual at the University of Baltimore.
1. A Great Musical Tradition
2. The Synagogue and its Music
3. The Chazzan (or Cantor) and his Cantillation
4. An Italian Development of the Sixteenth Century
5. The Partial Reintroduction of Instrumental Music
6. The Ninteenth- and Twentieth-century Reform Movement
7. Jewish Popular Song
8. Some Modern Investigations and Opinions
http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~pfitz/play/ref/Histjew.htm
A peer reviewed webjournal with full text and multi-media presentation given in conference format with no bibliographies. Scholarly and general submissions in ethnomusicology and related disciplines are accepted. Homesite is located at the University of Maryland–Baltimore County with mirror sites at the University of California School of Arts and Architecture and University of Bologna Department of Music and Theater. Articles such as: “Music, Myth and History in the Mediterranean: Diaspora and the Return to Modernity” by Michael Bohlman and “On Jewish and Muslim musicians of the Mediterranean” by Amnon Shiloah appear fulltext.
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/
Hebrew. An online paper by Akiva Zimerman published in Tel Aviv in 1992, “Sherai Ron”, about the rules concerning the use of tuning forks according to Halacha, Jewish Law.
http://www.shulmusic.org/tuning_fork_laws.html
Cantor Elihu Feldman of synagogue B’nai Shalom in West Orange, New Jersey, has a regular monthly column, which is mounted on the synagogue’s website. These columns often contain valuable information about a variety of aspects of Jewish music, not the least of which are historical pieces and brief biographical sketches of famous Jewish musicians.
http://www.uscj.org/njersey/w-orange/Cantor/cantor-mes.htm
A Music Drama for Violin and Orchestra. Program notes by Frank Proto.
http://www.liben.com/Pgmnotes3.html#003
Extensive academic bibliography on music in the Near East. Many entries on ancient music in bablyonia as well as ancient Israel.
http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/music.html
A Jewish community site from Trondheim, Norway dedicated to the “private, non-profit, non-denominational resource site for Jewish religion and culture with the primary focus on Western Sephardic traditions, mainly the Spanish and Portuguese traditions of NW Europe and the Americas, and a secondary focus on Litvak, Hamburg and Scandinavian Ashkenazi traditions.” In the music section, which is in Norwegian, there is a history of Sephardic music, along with online scores of various pieces and samples of music from Emanuel Aguilar and the Rev. D.A. de Sola’s Talelé zimrá(Sephardi melodies : being the traditional liturgical chants of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation, London. These are interesting samples of music that may not be as familiar to Americans.
http://utne.nvg.org/j/shir/index.html…
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SOAS University of London KlezFest London Annual Summer School (2004 dates 8-12 August) Now in its fourth year, KlezFest London has become the place to study the uplifting and poignant music, song and dance of Eastern European Jewish life. The faculty are all the very top musicians, singers and teachers from America and from Eastern Europe. They are the pioneers of the Klezmer Revival as well as the links to the past. Their knowledge and expertise conjure up the warm and intense Yiddish culture in dance classes, lectures, workshops, masterclasses, performances and jams from 9am till after midnight. The students – instrumentalists and singers of all ages and backgrounds – gather from all parts the world, brought together by a common passion for Jewish Music. There is expert tuition in instrumental and ensemble playing and for existing bands.
…MUH 3621 Jewish Art Music in Western Culture.
A cultural history of western art music inspired by Jewish subjects, Biblical and non-Biblical, composed by both Jewish and non-Jewish composers, and a survey of Jewish performing musicians from the Renaissance to the present.
http://www.reg.ufl.edu/99-20catalog/courses/music.html
University of Chicago Jewish Studies College offers a course in Jewish music taught by Philip Bohlman.
http://www2.uchicago.edu/adm-registrar/an9798/jewstdc.html
Jewish Music MUSC333.
Tulane University Music Department. Dr. John Baron offers a survey of “Jewish sacred and secular music from Biblical times to the present. Considers music of the Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yemenite, Israeli, Falasha, and American traditions.”
http://www.Tulane.edu
The original KlezKamp! “KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program” (now having completed its 17th consecutive year)allows participants to learn Yiddish, klezmer music, Yiddish dance, culture, language and arts. The camp is usually held the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and recently has located to Cherry Hill, NJ. It’s an exciting week filled with music, dance, food, freilach and fun. Lots of interesting people attend to learn, be with family and friends, have a good time, just be Jewish or learn Yiddish culture. Everyone from frum to new age feel comfortable at KlezKamp, and a fascinating mix of people attend each year. Expert teachers for the music divisions with master classes for the advanced students. Adult and children’s activities and classes.
Henry Sapoznik, Director
Sherry Mayrent, Associate Director
Dan Peck, Operations
Cynthia Pierce, Office Manager
http://www.livingtraditions.org…
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Ethnomusicology: Seminar. Music 208r. Catalog Number: 2232. Kay Kaufman Shelemay.
Music in Jewish Religious and Cultural Life. Music’s role in expressing and maintaining Jewish identity.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/courses/courses98_99index.html#ugrad
Jewish music course Music 224 (or Religion 224) offered through the music department. Interdisciplinary course traces musical traditions of world Jewry. Multicultural search for musical identity. Taught by Ofer Ben-Amots.
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/catalog_pdf/section4.pdf
A leading insitute for training traditional cantors. “Graduates of TACI serve some of the most prominent synagogues in leading Jewish Communities worldwide. This institution was founded with a vision and far-reaching perspective regarding the importance of preserving the world of Chazzanut and nusach Hat filah for generations to come.” The campus boasts the Brodt Center, with a multi-functional auditorium, and state of the art recording facilities, which enable the publishing of both historical and commissioned new liturgical works. The library contains invaluable recordings, manuscripts, videos etc, dedicated to the library of the institute so that they can be available to researchers, artists and the public in general, thus creating a resource center for the cantorial art, Jewish liturgy and Yiddish song.
http://www.taci.org.il/…
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The Department of Music at SOAS University of London offers Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Jewish music.
Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London: Alexander Knapp
Regular Courses include: Aspects of Jewish Music (BA – undergraduate)
The Music of the Jews (MMus – postgraduate)
The aims and objectives of these courses are to explore a musical culture which began in the Levant some 3,000 years ago and which has been diffused throughout the world, constantly adapting to new conditions and yet retaining its identity in many widely differing ethnic and geographical environments. Scholarly investigations combine broadly ethnomusicological and intercultural approaches with elements of musicology. The music of the Jews is one of the fundamental factors in the understanding of Near Eastern and European traditions, first having influenced, and then having been influenced by, the musics of Christianity and Islam.…
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The School of Sacred Music trains cantors for the Reform movement. The SSM is located at HUC-JIR’s New York School, adjacent to New York University (NYU), and offers the Master of Sacred Music (MSM) to men and women who train to receive formal investiture as Cantor.
http://huc.edu/academics/cantorial/index.shtml
The Ron Shulamit Music Conservatory is located in Jerusalem, Israel. Since 1910 the school has been providing students with quality music and dance education, while bringing the arts to communities across Jerusalem and Israel as a whole, through performances by ballet troupes, chamber orchestras, ensembles, and youth choirs. The school has made 3 CD’s, including one by the accordian orchestra, one of the recorder trio and one by the chamber orchestra. Chassidic niggunim, songs based on psalms, traditional shabbat holiday melodies, as well as contemporary arrangements of Jewish classics (including several by Israel Edelson) are all contained on the CD’s. The recordings can be purchase by sending an email: ronshulamit@yahoo.com To learn more, read this (pdf) description .
The NIS is the eldest fully operational Rabbinical Seminary in Europe (founded 1740). The Seminary is funded and recognized as an institution for Higher Education on University Level by Her Majesties Minister for Education, Science and Culture. At NIS people can study Jewish Music or train to become Hazzan. Contact:
Nederlands Israelitisch Seminarium (NIS)
Gerrit van der Veenstraat 26
1077 ED Amsterdam
The Netherlands
nis-nis@planet.nl
The Miller Cantorial School trains cantors in the Conservative movement. The College of Jewish Music trains musicians for congregational service or as teachers of Jewish music, choral directors, composers or research scholars. The H.L. Miller Cantorial School awards the diploma of hazzan and the College of Jewish Music awards the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sacred music. Students preparing for the cantorate are enrolled in both schools and are expected to complete the diploma program and the master of sacred music degree simultaneously, on a full-time basis, preferably within a five-year period.
http://www.jtsa.edu/cantorial/
The Jewish Music Institute provides training for educators in Jewish music and courses of general interest in Jewish music. Their certificate in Jewish music is “designed for Jewish educators, cantorial soloists, ritual directors, lay musicians and all those interested in furthering their knowledge of Jewish music.”
http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/
For classical music studies in Jerusalem which include two orchestras, dance troupes, choirs, masterclasses, workshops for Baroque, contemporary music, chamber music, opera and many more…. “The unique character of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance lies in its three constituent institutions: the Academy, the Academy High School and the Conservatory.” At the Academy, one hundred and sixty professors, teachers, and artists are responsible for training more than 600 students, who study for the Bachelor and Master degrees in music, dance and music education. Some 550 students are currently studying at the Conservatory. The Academy High School is situated in the new Younes and Soraya Nazarian Building on the Givat Ram Campus adjacent to the Academy’s main building in Jerusalem. Telephone 02 -5619443, 02-5618881.Fax: 02-5630537.
http://www.jamd.ac.il/English/…
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“Designed to prepare cantors who are educator-scholars as well as spiritual leaders, Hebrew College’s Cantor-Educator Program combines coursework leading to both a Master of Jewish Education (MJEd) and Cantorial Ordination within a transdenominational setting.” Hebrew College’s program started as an accredited school with Masters and Doctoral programs in Judaic Studies and Education and 10 years ago opened the Jewish Music Institute where both para-professional and professional cantor-educators are trained. The first graduating class of Hazzanim was 2006. The Jewish Music Institute (JMI) supports “educators, cantorial soloists and other interested students” to “engage the world of Jewish music through the academic courses and certificate programs. Courses range from a historical survey of Jewish music to cantorial recitatives for the Sabbath and High Holidays, from Ashkenazic prayer chant to Yiddish and Klezmer music performance styles.” In addition to materials for the study of Jewish education and general Jewish studies, the Gann Library of Hebrew College, now houses the New England division of the American Jewish Historical Society.…
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Hannover, Germany. Das Europäische Zentrum für Jüdische Musik under the direction of Andor Izsák hopes to reconstruct and document the music of the synagogues that were lost during the time of WWII. Much of the Jewish cantorial, organ music and composers are unknown to most people today in Germany, and the Center’s mission is to increase awareness and knowledge. The Center will search after documents, present concerts and sponsor festivals and symposia, and publish music.
http://www.ezjm.de
The website states: “The Musicology Department, part of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was founded in 1965 by the late Professor Alexander Ringer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. It was the first such department to be founded in Israel, and already in its first decade of existence it boasted such distinguished faculty members as Israel Alder, the late Bathja Bayer, Jehoash Hirshberg, Don Harrán, Josef Tal, Dalia Cohen, Ruth Katz, and Amnon Shiloah. Then as in nowadays, the Department seeks to advance knowledge and research of music as a multifaceted phenomenon having varied manifestations, in conjunction with both local and global contexts, and with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. The Department offers courses in three major areas: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and theory.…
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Training for Synagogue musicians. The Commission on Synagogue Music, in close cooperation with Hebrew Union College – School of Sacred Music, offers annual seminars for Synagogue musicians. “Accompanists and choral directors from all over the country come to the School of Sacred Music in New York each summer and study topics ranging from basic Hebrew to Jewish choral music in the 19th and 20th centuries. They return to their congregations with an increased knowledge of our (musical) traditions and lots of new repertoire.”
http://uahcweb.org/music
YUVAL Italia – The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music (Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica), was founded in January 1997, in Milan, Italy. Its fundamental purpose is to provide written and aural documentation of Jewish musical traditions, particularly those in Italy. It holds a Library and a Sound Archive, and provides contacts to musicians and music festivals throughout the country. The Center, founded with the aid of Professor Israel Adler, is the first of its kind in Italy and operates in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. YUVAL Italia is currently directed by Dr.Francesco Spagnolo. YUVAL produces a weekly live radio show from Radio Popolare, Milan.
E-mail: yuval@powerlink.it.
For more information you may write to the following address:
YUVAL Italia –Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica
via della Guastalla, 19
20122 Milano, ITALY.…
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The Belz School trains cantors and is affiliated with Yeshiva University.
http://www.yu.edu/belz/
The Australian Centre for the Studey of Jewish Civilisation (A.C.J.C.) at Monash University was established in 1992 to foster teaching and research in the field of Jewish Civilisation at undergraduate and graduate level. They have established an archive in Jewish music.
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/jewish_civilisation/index.html
Located at the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA, The Academy for Jewish Religion, of California is a pluralistic Rabbinical and Cantorial Seminary and Chaplaincy Program. AJR, CA’s Cantorial Seminary is the only Cantorial school in the Western United States and its’ Dean, Hazzan Nathan Lam, is the hazzan of Stephen S. Wise Temple, the largest congregation in the world. The Cantorial Seminary trains men and women to become cantors who will be a living resource of the varied aspects of the Jewish musical tradition – with mastery of the melodies and chants for Jewish prayer, and of the music for home, school and community. This mastery, coupled with the ability to impart and inspire, includes the contemporary modes and sounds, which resonate with today’s generation.…
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The Academy for Jewish Religion, located at 6301 Riverdale Ave., Riverdale, NY 10471. Phone: 718 543-9360. They train cantors in a Jewish pluralistic environment. Cantors are trained to “lead dynamic, spiritually uplifting, meaningful religious services in all denominational liturgies and nusach.” They also train rabbis. “It offers full or part time study and mechina programs. Cantorial and rabbinic students study and learn together and ordination is conferred on both Rabbinic and Cantorial graduates.”
http://www.ajrsem.org/
NEJS184b. Joshua Jacobson. The Music of the Jewish People.
An investigation into the roles that music has played in Jewish life from ancient to modern times, including music in the time of the Bible, Rabbinic attitudes, prayer and scriptural cantillation, music in the Diaspora, polyphony in the synagogue, Jewish concert music, music in the Holocaust, in modern Israel, and in 20th century America. Usually offered every third year.
http://www.brandeis.edu/
New Cantorial school which has finished its first year of teaching the art of Chazzanut. Located at the Baldwin Jewish Center in Baldwin, New York. The Seminary is new,having opened in October, 2004, but it is affiliated with the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of America (JMCA) which was foundin 1896 as the Hazanim Farband iand is the oldest cantorial association in the United Sttes. The JMCA will serve all denominations of Jewish cantors. One of the main advocacies of the group will be the preservation of nusach. The program of study is based on the “nuts and bolts” of what cantors need to know. The perspective is essentially Orthodox, although the Conservative and Reform perspective are also explained to students. The Seminary is at 885 East Seaman Avenue, Baldwin, NY 11510.…
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The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music was established by Lotte Lenya in 1962 to continue the legacy of musician and composer, Kurt Weill. It is housed at the University of Utah Marriott Library, Manuscripts Division.The foundation owns the copyright to all of Weill’s scores and recordings.
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/mss/accn1555/1555guid.html
In the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Includes an online index to the music of Kurt Weill as well as standard archival listings such as an overview and scope of the collections, inventory by box, biographical sketch and Library of Congress Subject Headings (listings of the other names of people with materials in the collections.)
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/music.Weill.nav.html
The Judah Magnes Museum, located in Berkeley, California is open to the public. The Library contains Jewish recorded music and sheet music. Among the collections are a large number of 78 recordings. The Museum asks researchers to phone first and make an appointment at 510-549-6939. They are generally open Sundays–Thursdays, but closed on Jewish and Federal holidays, and are located at 2911 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94705.
http://www.jfed.org/magnes/magnes.htm
The Jewish Community Library, located at 601 14th Avenue (at Balboa) San Francisco, CA 94118. Tel 415.751.6983, ext 106. Includes holdings of Jewish music and carrels for music listening.
http://www.bjesf.org/MAIN/JCL/jcl.html
YUVAL Italia – (Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica), was founded in January 1997, in Milan, Italy. Its fundamental purpose is to provide written and aural documentation of Jewish musical traditions, particularly those in Italy. It holds a Library and a Sound Archive, and provides contacts to musicians and music festivals throughout the country. The Center, founded with the aid of Professor Israel Adler, is the first of its kind in Italy and operates in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. YUVAL Italia is currently directed by Dr.Francesco Spagnolo. YUVAL produces a weekly live radio show from Radio Popolare, Milan.
E-mail: yuval@powerlink.it.
For more information you may write to the following address:
YUVAL Italia –Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica
via della Guastalla, 19
20122 Milano, ITALY.…
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YIVO holds one of the world’s largest collections of Eastern European Jewish sound recordings and Jewish sheet music. Materials must be consulted onsite. Researchers are requested to call for an appointment for access to the Archives. “This collection consists of published and unpublished works of Yiddish and Hebrew; art, folk, popular, and theater music; Holocaust songs; liturgical and Hasidic music; choral music; and instrumental compositions. It includes several thousand pieces of published sheet music by composers and arrangers such as Abraham Ellstein, Abraham Goldfaden, Pinchas Jassinowski, Alexander Olshanetzky, Joseph Rumshinsky, and Sholem Secunda. It also includes published and unpublished choral, folk, classical, popular, liturgical, Hasidic, and Holocaust-related music by many different composers; as well as programs, clippings, photographs, and other documents about Jewish music.” Outstanding collections of cantorial and choral synagogue music, folk music and theater music can be in the archives.…
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