The website of Geoffrey L. Schlisler, a Rabbi, Cantor, Composer and Educator, is devoted to Chazanut and its history, including historical writings on chazanut and biographies of many past chazanim. The website also includes Shisler’s own recordings and publications.
The earlier version, entitled “Cross-Repertoire Motifs in the Liturgical Music of Ashkenazi Tradition,” was presented at the World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 2013. This article is an expanded and elaborated version of that paper.
Directed by Izza Genini
Thesis dissertation concerning cantor-composer Hirsch Weintraub.
For choir with (or without) solo voice. This is a part of a manuscript from the end of the 19th century.
90 min. French, Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino, and English w/ English subtitles
Director: Nicolas Klotz.
Documentary on the importance and utilisation of traditional music in Sephardic Jewish communities - from the Middle East, via America, to Africa. A unique compilation of footage of chazzanot, or Jewish liturgical pieces, from across the Jewish world, and an investigation of its influence on other communities and visa versa.
88 compositions for Hazzan and choir for the High Holidays, as well as 15 Recitatives for Hazzan alone
26 compositions for Hazzan and choir for Shabbat and Festivals, as well as 13 Recitatives for Hazzan alone
140 Recitatives for Selihot and the High Holidays
