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SaveTheMusic Yiddish Hall
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SaveTheMusic.com is a 501c-3 non-profit organization based in San Diego with Zamlers in 4 continents dedicated to saving and promoting Jewish music by finding old recordings, enriching them with lyrics, translations, transliterations, sheet music, biographies of performers, composers, etc. digitizing the songs, and making all this information available on-line to young performers and everybody interested in Jewish music.
Location:
California, United States
Website:
Contact Name: Daniel Ajzen
Email: info@savethemusic.com
Phone: 1858-414-3339

Yiddish Sheet Music Collection
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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 performers and theatrical personalities represented are Molly Picon, Bores [...]
Location:
Rhode Island, United States
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Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
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The Library's collection of Yiddish American sheet music is an unusual one for the Library of Congress. It began, not with a donation or purchase of materials which were then cataloged, but with a catalog. Lawrence Marwick, after retiring from his position as head of the Library's Hebraic Section in 1980, set out to compile a list of American [...]
Location:
District of Columbia, United States
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Jewish Music Institute
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JMI is the home of Jewish music in the UK. They are dedicated to the celebration, preservation and development of the living heritage of Jewish music for the benefit of people of all ages and backgrounds. Our goal is to inform and inspire audiences with an exciting, original programme of live performances, educational events and collaborative projects and to support [...]
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536, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh St,, London, London, United Kingdom
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Jewish Music Research Centre: Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology
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The Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) compiles a wide array of source materials that shed light on the historical and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included [...]
Location:
Jerusalem, Israel
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Milken Archive of Jewish Music
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A musical adventure of historic scope and proportion, the Milken Archive was founded in 1990 to document, preserve, and disseminate the vast body of music that pertains to the American Jewish experience. In the time since, the Milken Archive has become the largest collection of American Jewish music ever assembled—roughly 600 recorded works, more than 500 of them world [...]
Location:
1250 Fourth Street, California, United States
Email: info@milkenarchive.org
Phone: (310) 570-4746