Purpose

The purpose of the Jewish Music WebCenter is to support and encourage scholarship and the general enjoyment of Jewish music. This website provides information about activities by individuals and groups as well as academic and archival resources.

History

The Jewish Music WebCenter  was started by Judith S. Pinnolis. Originally an experiment in online bibliography at Brandeis University begun in April, 1996, less than two years later, in February, 1998, the Jewish Music WebCenter was reborn as an independent website in its own domain: jmwc.org.   At that time, there were only about 75 websites of Jewish music and a bibliography of 40 selected print reference sources. Today there are thousands of websites and many more academic digital resources of interest in Jewish music.  During the last thirty years, key institutional libraries around the world have included this website in their subject bibliographies as an accurate resource for students and scholars in Jewish music.

Structure

As the Internet has evolved, the Jewish Music WebCenter has evolved with it. This is the 5th new structure to our website. Ten years ago, the site moved to a database driven format on Word Press. This has allowed a smoother operation of updates to the website, which previously had been in static webpages and had to be cross referenced manually. In the past, the website attempted concert and event announcements. Given the evolution of social media, this website will no longer host those announcements and will focus on individual and group awareness and research resources in Jewish music. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact the editor at: info@jmwc.org

Annotations

While striving to find as much resource information as possible, The JMWC cannot be all inclusive.  Where quote marks appear in an annotation, the material was taken directly from a book or website referred in the description, and quotes are intended to indicate a direct attribution. Every attempt is made to be as accurate as possible in descriptions and attributions as of the upload date. However, given the dynamic environment, changes may occur. If you have information regarding a needed update, please contact the editor at: info@jmwc.org