HebrewSongs.com

Jewish Music Institute at the School of Oriental

and African Studies, University of London

The Jewish Music Institute is dedicated to the celebration, preservation and development of the living heritage of Jewish music for the benefit of all. JMI documents, preserves, teaches and presents to the public, all aspects of the Jewish musical heritage: liturgical, classical, ethnic and folk as well as music suppressed by Nazi and Soviet tyranny.

Jewish National and University Library

The Jewish National and University Library is the National Library of the State of Israel, the National Library of the Jewish People, and the Central Library of the Hebrew University.

National Yiddish Book Center

For over 25 years the National Yiddish Book Center has been on a mission to preserve Yiddish literature. Rescuing a million Yiddish books was just the first chapter in the Book Center’s mission. Now they ask, “How can we connect a younger generation with its own cultural heritage?”

Robert & Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive

Located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania, the archive currently contains over 1,800 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew. Over 28,000 entries in the trilingual database catalog include the title of each track or band of recording, author(s), composer(s) where known and performed.

Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings

This website showcases over 100 years of recorded Sephardic music, from the 78 rpm era to the present. It first explores in detail the earliest Sephardic recordings, the artists that made them, and their repertory and performance practices. These early recordings tell a rich story of Sephardic musical life in the first half of the 20th century.