Research and Course Guides: Judaic Studies: Jewish Music

Streaming Music Source at UST

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
For fun, try searching "klezmer"; or, on the serious side, try searching under "Kol Nidre" for classical interpretations of an Aramaic declaration recited in the Synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Search under Cultural Group for Jewish; or under Genre for World, then Judaica.

Streaming Music and More

Der Yidisher Gramofon
The sites provides regularly updated information about the Discography of Early European Recordings of Jewish Music.
Jewish Music Web Center
The Jewish Theological Seminary Music Collections
Include archives, sound recordings and musical scores depicting Ashkenazi and Sefardi traditions and the tradition of Cochin, India.
Judaica Sound Archives
Collect, preserve and digitize Judaica audio recordings (Florida Atlantic University).
Let Us Sing
An egalitarian traditional bencher (booklet of songs and blessings recited before and after meals, on Shabbat, festivals, and other occasions), ready to adjust language to address the diversity of contemporary Jewish life.
Milken Archive of Jewish Music
The National Sound Archives
A sample of the recorded holiday treasuresk, from the David and Fela Shapell Digitization Project at the National Library of Israel.
The Piyut Archive
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive at Penn University Library
Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings
This serchable website features recorded Sephardic music from the 78 rpm era to the present.
Online Heritage
A sample of the recorded treasures of the National Sound Archives (National Library of Israel.)
Music in Jewish History and Culture
See Online Music tab on left of site

Try a LibrarySearch using Library of Congress Subject Headings

A variety of material is offered through the library's LibrarySearch, under the following subject headings:

Jews, music * synagogue music * cantillation * klezmer music * songs, Yiddish * folk songs, Yiddish * folk songs, Hebrew * folk music, Israel * folk dance music, Israel.