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JEWISH
MUSIC WEBSITES
Sites in alphabetical order |
| Acappella Jewish groups website |
| Archive of Israeli Music Center for Israeli music and musical life founded in 1977. The archive includes material from personal estates and institutional archives. |
Chazzanut Online Comprehensive site on Jewish Liturgical Music (chazzanut), with a large collection of cantorial music scores, midi sound, annotated links and background information. |
| Hava Nashira The Hava Nashira website is an outgrowth of the annual Hava Nashira Jewish Songleaders workshop in the United States. The site serves as a resource for Jewish songleaders, but, beyond that serves as an online resource for all people involved in teaching and leading Jewish music, whether at camps, congregations, or community centers. There is an affiliated discussion list hanashir@shamash.org where songleaders, songwriters, Jewish musicians and performers, cantors, music teachers, educators and more share and learn from one another. |
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Hebrew
Song & Poetry Web Ring |
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University: The National Sound Archives Digitization Project Jewish National and University Library - Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel The National Sound Archives at the JNUL contain more than 7000 hours of recorded music representing all Jewish and Israeli communities. The entire archive is now being systematically digitized which will insure both preservation of the materials and better access for researchers. |
| Hip Hop A mixture of Rap and R&B - in Hebrew |
| Jerusalem
of Gold website Devoted to the song Yerushalayim Shel Zahav |
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Agency for Israel - "Lashir Ivrit" - Music Links A great list of links including Music web links, Israeli singers, and Israeli Recording Companies and Online Stores. |
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Liturgical Music The site for Jewish Liturgical Music, shul music, hazanut, shabbat zmirot, choral music, synagogue music. |
| Jewish Music
Institute The British site for music education and information. Includes their own label, Jewish Music Heritage Recordings, which is building a catalogue of important recordings representing the diversity of Jewish musical heritage. |
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Music Research Centre Part of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dedicated to the documentation, research and publication of scholarly materials about Jewish music. The main task of the JMRC consists of collecting and studying all documents pertaining to the musical traditions and the musical life of Jewish communities, past and present. |
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Music Web Centre A forum for gathering and presenting information on academic, organizational, and personal activities in Jewish music today. Supports the enjoyment, study, creation and pursuit of knowledge of Jewish music. |
| Jewish Rock.com Great website of a very talented American duo. Includes lyrics and chord charts to their own compositions, as well as traditional Shabbat songs with a new take. |
| Judaica Music Rescue Project In the process of creating a world class collection of vintage Judaica music by encouraging individuals, synagogues and organizations to contribute their music collections. Over 6000 songs in their 78-rpm collection, which is searchable on the website. This list on the website is updated monthly. There are over 2300 LP albums registered in their LP database. Future enhancements to the website will include the ability to play snippets of songs, view the original record labels, and see complete database information for each song. |
Judaica Sound Archives (JSA) |
| Judith Cohen website Dr. Judith R. Cohen is a performer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Judeo-Spanish ("Ladino") Sephardic songs, as well as in medieval and traditional music, including Balkan, Portuguese, Yiddish, and French Canadian. A page of reference articles by Judith Cohen |
| Kdam
Eurovision The "pre-Eurovision" with all details of Israel's 2002 song. |
| Kharkov
Klezmer Band Klezmer is alive and well in the Ukraine. Who would have believed it. |
| Kikar Israel A fantastic resource in English about Israeli Artists and albums |
| Klezmania Australia's leading Klezmer band |
| Klezmershack If it's Klezmer, it's here. If it's not here - it's not Klezmer! |
| Peter
& Ellen Allard Specialising in music for young children |
| Rahel
Jaskow's "Day of Rest" CD "Rahel's clear, bell-like voice and harmonious vocal arrangements guide the listener to a quiet, tranquil place and make the spirit soar." |
| Rami
Bar Niv website. Rami is an Israeli concert pianist and composer. The site has free master classes, mp3 plays, song delivery, sample music albums, downloads, musical greeting cards, streaming audio, and Internet audio juke-box. Varied music. |
| Sefarad Records Sephardic music resource website. Includes new album "Sing to the Eternal" featuring spiritual songs from Morocco, Persia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Spain and Portugal as well as original songs composed by Gerard Edery and based on sacred texts. Sung in English, Hebrew, Ladino and Arabic. |
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Songs
of Modzitz Hear many of the wonderful tunes that have become classics of Jewish music. |
| The
Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music," which the New York Times called "invaluable" and Jewish Week termed "indispensable." by Seth Rogovoy |
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Felicja Blumental Music Center & Library Click here to read about this extraordinary music library in Tel Aviv |
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LISTEN TO MUSIC ONLINE |
Achlamusic |
| David
Ben Gurion reads Israel's Declaration of Independence Our thanks to the Jewish Music dot com website for this link |
| "Hassidic
Capella" The Moscow Male Jewish Choir Russia's leading Jewish a cappella choral ensemble Listen to tracks: 
Va Havieynu
Ki Lekah Toiv |
| Israel Gimel - Free Midi Library |
| Online Jewish Radio Station |
| Israeli Songs by Radio Falafel |
| Erets Free France Chansons |
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OTHER SONGWORDS WEBSITES
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| Jacob
Richman's My Hebrew Songbook Songwords in Hebrew print |
| Ofra Haza Song Lyrics |
| Service/Song Archive by Daniel Macks |
| Zemerl
- The Princeton University Jewish Song Database This groundbreaking site paved the way for the work of Hebrew Songs dot com, and we acknowledge with thanks the support and encouragement of its creator, Inna Barmash |
| www.shiron.net |
| We are including all known sites on the internet, even if they are no longer active. We would like to acknowledge the work of everyone who has a love for Hebrew music. Please feel free to send us any site that is not listed here. |
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GLOBAL MUSIC SITES OF INTEREST |
| AstroCappella:
A Musical Exploration of the Universe AstroCappella is a marriage of astronomy and music, developed by astronomers and professionally recorded by the a cappella group The Chromatics. |
| Beethoven
- Complete Piano Sonatas Read about the three year project to record all of Beethoven's piano works by an Australian pianist. Listen to samples of four of the sonatas. A site not to be missed. |
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JEWISH HUMOUR AUDIO SITES |
| You Don't Have to be Jewish |
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Call from Long Island Title: A Call From Long Island - You Don't Have To Be Jewish Actors: Betty Walker & Arlene Golonka Copyright: 1992 Bob Booker Productions |
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Reading of the Will Title: The reading Of The Will - You Don't Have To Be Jewish Actors: Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi, J. Kannon, A. Golonka, B. Walker Copyright: 1992 Bob Booker Productions |
| Allan Sherman |
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Muddah, Hello Fadduh Title: Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! - The Best of Allan Sheman Author: Allan Sherman Copyright: 1988 Rhino Records Inc. |
| For more Humour links, go to http://www.jewishmusic.com/index.asp and click on Audio Library - Humour |
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REVIEWS & ARTICLES OF INTEREST |
| Jews
and Blues A discussion of how Jewish and African American music came together in the early part of the 20th century. |
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Hazak - Israeli Music on the Web Reviews of Israeli albums from the Israeli press and RadioHazak |
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DID YOU KNOW?
Shalom Hanoch and Ehud Manor top Israeli radio charts.
Rock singer/composer Shalom Hanoch is the most frequently played artist on both IDF Radio and the Voice of Israel followed on Voice of Israel by the lyrics of Ehud Manor.
He's also number two lyricist on IDF Radio followed by Shalom Hanoch on the Voice of Israel.Naomi Shemer and Yuval Banai are second on the Voice of Israel and IDF Radio respectively. The figures were released by ACUM, the Israeli composers an publishers association. From an article in the Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2000 Thanks to our contributors
To Rochelle Lodder of Chicago for sending in the link to Astro-Capella.
To Reuben Bolaffi of Adelaide Australia for sending in the link to Mostly Music.com.To Jesse Hefter of the Shamash Jewish music chat list for sending the link to the Songs of Modzitz website.
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