Music & Prayer
Bella and Harry Wexner Libraries of Sound and Song
From the National Library of Israel.
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National Sound Archive of Israel
From the National Library of Israel. The National Sound Archive of Israel provides access to thousands of hours of digitized music recordings.
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The House of Hebrew Songs
From the National Library of Israel. Digitized archives of Hebrew language songs.
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Milken Archive of Jewish Music
From the Milken Archive. This searchable archive is devoted to the recording, preservation, and distribution of American Jewish music from the past 350 years. You can browse by cantor, choir, composer, conductor, orchestra, soloist, or vocalist. There are articles,videos and oral histories.
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The Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings
From the University of Wisconsin Madison. Over 9,000 78rpm discs include Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music, poetry, drama, and event ballads and from locations as diverse as the United States, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Israel.
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Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
From the Library of Congress. The Library's holdings of Yiddish American popular songs include the Irene Heskes Collection of Yiddish American sheet music.The majority of the selections found here originated in the Yiddish theater.
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Yiddish Song of the Week
From the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project (AJFRP). Field recordings of traditional Yiddish folksingers from around the world contributed by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, musicians, singers and collectors. Each Yiddish song will be presented with Yiddish words and translation, along with commentary from the contributor.
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Zemer Reshet
From the Organization for Hebrew Music. This Hebrew language open source project is seeking to compile a database of early Hebrew songs. The songs are browsable by title, composer and performer and searchable by keyword. You can also find biographical information about the composers and performers. You can listen to many of the selections. In addition, the site provides the lyrics to the songs.
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Stonehill Jewish Song Collection
From the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. “In the summer of 1948, an amateur folklorist named Ben Stonehill recorded more than 1,000 songs from Holocaust survivors in the lobby of the Hotel Marseilles in New York City.” These songs are now available online. Most of them are in Yiddish.
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The Ruth Rubin Legacy
From the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. “The Ruth Rubin Legacy highlights the renowned vocalist and scholar's collection of over 1,500 Yiddish lider (songs) performed by some of the most extraordinary traditional singers of the 20th century, including Rubin herself. The 78rpm acetate discs, reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes recorded by Rubin between 1946 and the 1970s are in the process of being painstakingly re-assembled and are made truly accessible here for the first time.“ You can search the collection by song title, performer, genre, and location of the recording.
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Save the Music
From Save the Music. Describing itself as the largest repository of Jewish music online, this site provides access to Jewish music and videos iin Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew and includes klezmer and chazzanut.
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Klezmer Scores
From Shpilkes, The Temple Aliyah Klezmer Band. These pdfs of scores have been gathered to provide a repertoire for Shpilkes, The Temple Aliyah Klezmer Band.
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St. Petersburg Score Collection
From the American Society for Jewish Music. Pdfs of scores from The Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, the first Jewish musical institution permitted in Russia, founded in 1908.
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Jewish Music Score Library Project
From the Jewish Tunes Forever (Nigunim Laad). Database of Russian Jewish music searchable by a variety of parameters. The results include sheet music and audio and video files. To date, the project has digitized only a small number of these items.
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Classical Russian Jewish Music
From Pro Musica Hebraica. Created by Charles Krauthammer, this organization provides a browsable database of Russian Jewish concert music. Click on the link and hear the performance
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Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs (1907-1912)
From the EMI Archive Trust.
The full 78 tracks selected for this project are available for streaming, and the accompanying booklet is a free PDF download. |
The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection
The Workers Circle. The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle is a free, comprehensive, and searchable bi-lingual digital resource with lyrics, translations, sheet music, and audio and video performances for over 400 Yiddish songs inspired by Workers Circle historical song books compiled by renowned Yiddishists, Yosl and Chana Mlotek z"l.
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