Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song - Online Resources
Andy Muchin has hosted the “Sounds Jewish” radio show on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) and Radio-J.com since 2010. Each week he chooses a theme and presents an array of recordings spanning the Jewish world and the decades. Shows, broadcast first on Sundays, usually include klezmer music and Yiddish song. Find...
The Collection's focus is on the Yiddish-language musical stage, and includes many photographs of performers (often in costume) and composers, and, not infrequently, scenes from theatrical productions. Also included in the collection are art songs, Hebrew and Yiddish language folk songs, and religious music, notably from the cantorial repertoire. Notable...
The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project [DYTP] uses digital technology to study and preserve the rich legacy of the Yiddish stage. Founded in 2012 by Joel Berkowitz and Debra Caplan, the DYTP comprises theatrical practitioners, research librarians, and scholars in higher education, who are among the world's leading authorities on Yiddish...
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Yiddish Musical Comedy collection: https://rsa.fau.edu/judaic
“A Key to Jewish Life in Europe & America in the 20th Century.” Over 4,000 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew. Over 35,000 entries in the trilingual recording database catalogue. Part of the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) at The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
This online project has been created by some prominent Yiddish singers and scholars: Michael Alpert, Walter Zev Feldman, Itzik Gottesman, Ethel Raim, Josh Waletzky, and Mark Slobin. (In their words:) First, we identify the genre of the folksong within the culture of eastern Ashkenazic Jews and the surrounding European societies....
Searchable collections of recordings, e.g., George Blood collection Jewish, Yiddish, Pepi Litman
Extensive links to Jewish music archives and info http://jmwc.org/
Links to resources for learning about and playing klezmer music, generally and for specific instruments, collected by Jim Rebhan.
Bands radioshows, events, sheet music recordings, instruments, organizations and classifieds http://www.klezmershack.com/
All facets of Jewish vocal and instrumental music (especially dance music) and songs in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew. Klezmer, Sephardic, folk,religious and contemporary Jewish song, singers and musicians! This is our Klezmer/Jewish Music hubpage. We have 16 carefully chosen sites for you to choose from below. We hope you'll visit...
Founded in 2010, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of the nation’s leading centers for the study, documentation, and dissemination of Yiddish music and culture. The collection contains over 8,000 78rpm discs including Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music,...
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Founded in 1990 by Lowell Milken, chairman and co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is committed to preserving and presenting music of the American Jewish experience; music that reflects the scope and variety of Jewish life in America, and also demonstrates the universality of...
Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song - Online Resources, Yiddish Culture Online
The Klezmer Institute supports Ashkenazic expressive culture through research, teaching, publishing, and programming. • The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP) is making available a treasure trove of over 1400 handwritten klezmer pieces from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These were previously unavailable in a library in in Ukraine....
This site is a collection of stories about, lyrics for, and links to recordings of Yiddish Penny Songs, which are tenement song versions of American theatre and variety show songs, 1895-1925. Their sheet music sold for a penny, hence the name. The collection includes Yiddish Ragtime and Yiddish songs of...
The Workers Circle has turned their five out-of-print comprehensive Yiddish songbooks into an online collection, The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle. The Collection provides a readily searchable, online database of over 400 Yiddish songs with lyrics, English translations, transliterations, and sheet music. Viewers can...
Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song - Online Resources, Yiddish Songbooks
Hear a different rare Yiddish song every week, sung by a native speaker
New York-based archival collections and library, including YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, a massive collection on arts, daily life, places, language and literature, history and religion. Includes Yiddish song recordings. YIVO Sound Archives on-line. Online courses on Ashkenazi culture, some with free registration.
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