Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive Catalogue
This catalogue contains over 28,000 Yiddish and other Jewish songs and albums from the Freedman collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library.
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Shalshelet
The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music seeks to foster new music for Jewish congregational use and expose wider audiences to innovations in Jewish religious music. Shalshelet promotes the creation and spread of new Jewish liturgical music by looking for the answers to these questions: Which congregations are singing different tunes? Who is writing and leading these new compositions? How can these compositions be found, collected, and shared?
Shulmusic, Jewish Liturgical Music
The objective of this site is to provide a means of promoting Jewish Liturgical Music (JLM), music that is part of our Jewish musical heritage, which is in danger of becoming forgotten through disuse. Already today the music of some 1,700 JLM composers lays gathering dust on shelves of institutions and individuals around the world. This site will provide a centralized location for JLM music in electronic formats, and information available that would only normally be obtained from specialized libraries around the globe. And even then you would have to photocopy the book, ask someone to play it all to you, or play it yourself. A major innovation from the use of an electronic library is the ability to download MIDI files, which allows amateur choirs to begin learning pieces in 4 parts with very little effort. An interesting feature of this site is that it offers advice and music tutorials on how to start a shul choir and conduct prayer services. Currently, thousands of sheets of shul music have been scanned and put on the site for download. The growing collection includes: The Blue Book, synagogue music by Sulzer, Lewandowski, Goldfarb, Ephraim Katz, Rev. Marcus Hast, Samuel Alman, and more coming. A mailing list on Shul Music is also open for new members - details in the website.
Srul Irving Glick
This site includes biographical notes about Glick, his works and repertory, as well as some sound examples.
Terezin Chamber Music Foundation
Web site dedicated to the preservation, performance, and research of the music written by composers who perished during the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on those in Theresienstadt. Includes information about the foundation's research activities, archives, and educational programs, as well as a calendar of upcoming musical performances. (Description found on US States Holocaust Memorial Website; Music, Web Resources)
The Klezmer Shack
An informative site which focuses on Klezmer music and the Klezmer revival. It provides an up-to-date calendar of events all over the world. It also contains links to articles, instrument shops, organizations, bands, sources of sheet music, and recordings.
Yiddish Music
The site contains a comprehensive collection of recordings, lyrics, and biographies of Yiddish musicians. The site is in Russian, English, and Hebrew. The majority of the website is in Russian, however some biographies are available in English. The sound recordings and information regarding these recordings are readily accessible in English throughout the site.
Yiddish song: an A-Z of Research
This bibliography outlines a range of published works concerning various aspects of Yiddish song, particularly folk song. (This selection has been distilled from a larger bibliography compiled as part of Abbi Wood's PhD research.)
Zemerl
This is a comprehensive database of information, lyrics, and sounds of Jewish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish songs.