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.
Feher Jewish Music Center of Beth Hatefutsoth
Founded in 1982 and directed until 1999 by musicologist Dr. Avner Bahat, the Feher Jewish Music Center of Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, Israel, is engaged in the preservation, recording, and promotion of Jewish music, both among the Museum’s visitors and the general public. Access to the database of the music collection is available only at the museum.
Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater
Cancionero Sefardi
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Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1995
Anthology of Hassidic Music
Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century
Coplas sefardies
Hanigun VeHarikud Bahassidut (Hassidc song and dance)
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Three volume work containing a collection of Hassidic songs. The first volume was published in 1954 or 1955, the second and third volumes, in 1958 or 1959.
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Books
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1954 or 1955 , 1958 or 1959
Yidishe folkslider mit melodyes
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560 folk songs from the four collections of Cahan’s folk songs, edited by Max Weinreich.
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Books
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1957
Manginoth Shireynu: Hebrew Melodies, Old and New, Religious and Secular
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This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: "Hava Nagila: From Idelsohn to Belafonte & Beyond," prepared by Eva Heinstein with help from the JMRC staff. To view the exhibit in its entirety click on the link above.
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Songsters
Year:
1939
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.