1st Class Judaica from Israel
Links to new music websites in Israel.  Mostly advertisements.
http://www.IsraelVisit.co.il/1stClassMusic/

14th Annual KlezKamp:The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
The 14th Annual KlezKamp will be held between December 23-29, 1998 at the Paramount Hotel in Parksville, New York. The theme of the festival will be Yiddish culture in Israel's past, present and future. Gila Flam, Dov Noy and Chava Alberstein are scheduled to present insights into Yiddish in Israel's culture. There will be classes held by a myriad of klezmer artists and other Jewish musicians. Yiddish language and folklore courses will also be offered. For more information contact: Living Traditions, 430 West 14th Street Suite 409, New York NY 10014 Tel. (212) 691-1272 Fax (212) 691-1657
email: livetrads@aol.com

9th London International Jewish Music Festival
"The Festival is part of Jewish Music Festivals of Europe and is associated with Bnai Brith. This year's London International Jewish Music Festival, World of Jewish Music, 1-29 November,1998, includes music from around the world and focuses on the music of Israel today. Festival Director, Geraldine Auerbach, of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust says, 'We want to show the rich cultural diversity of music from Israel where ancient and
modern tradition mix with Eastern and Western Styles, creating new and exciting syntheses.' The month-long festival, sponsored by the Jewish Chronicle, has over forty events, both light hearted and more serious, at the Barbican, the South Bank Centre, St John's Smith Square and other venues."
http://www.jmht.org/festival98/index.html

A Bisl Yidishkayt
A website focused on Yiddish song and language, klezmer and cantorial music. It provides information to obtain recordings, videos and sheet music for klezmer, yiddish and cantorial works. Of special note is a glossary explaining the various types of klezmer dance tunes along with other forms and types of klezmer music. It includes listings of children's recordings and CDs of humor in Yiddish.
http://www.YiddishMusic.com/Pages/Frames/index.html

AbuGosh Vocal Music
Festival
Classical music concerts held twice a year in Israel, in May and October,

the festival director is Gershon Cohen. The programs consist of general

classical music, not music specifically Jewish in content. Performances

are primarily by Israeli music groups with some visitors.
http://www.update.co.il/agvfestival/

Achinoa Nini (Noa)
Fan site for Israeli singer Noa. Links to other fan sites and includes a biography and discography. By Aaron Rubin.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/noa.html

Agentur TOJWE
The German Artists Agency TOJWE presents Jewish artists, musicians and events in German speaking areas of Europe.
http://www.tojwe.de/index.html

Ahavat Israel Jewish
Music
This website has an alphabetical listing of Real Audio excerpts of
Jewish Music. These are offered as part of a larger site created as part
of an endeavor "to correct an ancient sin." This group feels the way to
correct it is with "Ahavat Chinam", endless love.  To that end that
have mounted very mild, synthesizer arrangements of music. Excellent for
children.
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/music.html

http://www.denneberen.demon.nl/hoofd.htm

The An'im
Zmirot Choir Rehovot
A listing of 31 Midi files for Adon Olam are a great feature of this
website!
http://members.tripod.com/~Animzmirot/anim.html

Arbel: Philadelphia Young
Adult Jewish Choir
Arbel is an acronym for Ohavei Rinah Bo-u Lashir. It is the website
of the Jewish Choir in Philadelphia which provides information on concerts
and connections to other Jewish choirs around the country.
http://home2.icdc.com/~arbel/

Ari Davidow's Klezmer
Shack
A excellent site for reviews of Jewish klezmer sound recordings, written
by Ari Davidow. The site has expanded to include Klezmer news, events and
links to Klezmer bands. There is a "klezclassifieds," and links to radio
shows on Jewish music. There are links to information about sheet music,
recordings, instruments and organizations. The site mounts full text articles
on Klezmer music and interviews. This is a recommended site for anyone
interested in learning more about klezmer music.
http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/

Arnold Schoenberg
The grandson of Arnold Schoenberg has mounted an extensive website devoted to the composer. An excellent source of academic materials.
http://www.primenet.com/~randols/schoenberg/schoenlinks.html

Ashkenaz 97:
A Festival of the New Yiddish Culture
Ashkenaz Festivals are fairly new, the first one held in 1995. the
scope and emphasis is on new work being created out of the many forms of
Eastern European Yiddish culture. Ashkenaz Festivals have attracted as
many as 30,000 people. Artists come from all over North America and Europe,
bringing new, vibrant and challenging work ranging from the traditional
to the unpredictable and experimental in music, theatre, modern dance,
storytelling, comedy, poetry, film, the visual arts and more. Lists of
participants are available at the website.
http://www.ivritype.com/ashkenaz/about.html

Australian
Centre for Jewish Civilisation
The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (A.C.J.C.) at Monash
University was established in 1992 to foster teaching and research in the
field of Jewish Civilisation at undergraduate and graduate level. They
have established an archive in Jewish music.
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ACJC/ACJC.htm

Balladeer Music--General
Catalog: International
An online commercial site to purchase older sound recordings. Recommendation
about reliability unknown.
http://www.balladeer.com/cat/international/

Baron's Course
in Jewish Music
Tulane University Music Department. Dr. Baron offers a survey of "Jewish
sacred and secular music from Biblical times to the present. Considers
music of the Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yemenite, Israeli, Falasha, and American
traditions."
http://www.tulane.edu/~music/describe.html

Bohlman's Course in Jewish Music
University of Chicago Jewish Studies College offers a course in Jewish
music taught by Philip Bohlman.
http://www2.uchicago.edu/adm-registrar/an9798/jewstdc.html

Bonnie Abrams & Allen Hopkins
Bonnie Abrams and Allen Hopkins perform acoustic folk music. Bonnie writes and sings new songs. A CD called A Sudenyu of Yiddish offers traditional and contemporary folk and theater songs in Yiddish.
http://dynrec.com/bonnieabrams/

Brandeis University Radio: WBRS
Brandeis University's radio station has three Sunday programs relating to Jewish music. At 11:00, hosted by Shachar Gilad, is Kol Yisrael which features Israeli music. At 12:30 is a program entitled Just Like You hosted by Forsan Hussein and Michael Bravly which has talk and music about Palestinian and Israeli music. At 2:00 is The Yiddish Hour with host Sara Ravid. Students wishing to participate or share music for any of these shows should contact the main station number at 781-736-5277. WBRS has a policy to play the music it receives.
http://www.wbrs.org/

Brandeis-Bardin Klezmer Ensemble
This loosely configured ensemble, established in 1993 under the auspices of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, is currently based in Hollywood and Beverly Hills, California. The group is made up of professional and recording studio musicians. They perform extensively in the area and on television.
http://members.aol.com/bbiklezmer/index.htm

Brave
Old World
Homepage of the Brave Old World klezmer band, this site includes both
an English and German version, with complete discography, biography, contact
information, tour dates and accessible sound samples. (One of my favorite groups!)
http://braveoldworld.com/

Bruce M. Adler
Website promoting the compositions and cassettes of Bruce and Donna Adler. Jewish music that searches for spirituality done in a folk/bluegrass style. The Adlers are Reconstructionist and Reform rabbis.
http://w3.one.net/~bruad/index.html

Budapester Klezmer Band
The first Jewish band founded in Hungary since the Holocaust, the Budapester Klezmer band was started in 1990 by Ferenc Javori. The tremendous goal they set for themselves is the reclamation of Jewish musical traditions in Hungary. The group has participated in international music festivals and has 3 CDs, one published by Harmonia Mundi.
http://www.datanet.hu/klezmer/

Budowitz Sacred and Secular
Budowitz is an ensemble that plays nineteenth century klezmer music on original instruments. The musicians in this group provide a sound steeped both in musicological and historical knowledge as well as the subtlety and coloration described by the reviewers as "pure emotion." Budowitz is staffed by leading lights in the klezmer world including Joshua Horowitz and Merlin Shepherd. Of special note is an interview with Budowitz as well as a history of klezmer.
http://members.styria.com/budowitz/

Synagogue
This site includes organizational information, articles on Jewish music,
a listing of recordings and related web sites.
http://www.jtsa.edu/org/cantor/

Centro di studi sulla musica ebraica
YUVAL Italia - The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music (Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica), was founded in January 1997, in Milan, Italy. Its fundamental purpose is to provide written and aural documentation of Jewish musical traditions, particularly those in Italy. It holds a Library and a Sound Archive, and provides contacts to musicians and music festivals throughout the country. The Center, founded with the aid of Professor Israel Adler, is the first of its kind in Italy and operates in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. YUVAL Italia is currently directed by Dr.Francesco Spagnolo. YUVAL produces a weekly live radio show from Radio Popolare, Milan.
E-mail: yuval@powerlink.it.
For more information you may write to the following address:
YUVAL Italia --Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica
via della Guastalla, 19
20122 Milano, ITALY.
tel/fax +39 02 55014977
http://www.powerlink.it/yuval/english.html

Chava Alberstein: First
Lady of Israeli Song
Website for Israeli musical superstar Chava Alberstein with brief biography,
photos and discography. Startnet contains additional biographical sketches
of Israeli musicians.

http://www.startnet.com/chava/

Children's Music/Lullabies
The Jewish.com online store has a section for ordering Jewish children's music. These are primarily contemporary, modern music composed in the US.
http://www.jewish.com/store/childrensmusic.html

The Cincinnati Klezmer
Project
This site is mounted by a band founded by students at of Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion who play Jewish music with others
affiliated with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Unusual at this site is an index of downloadable arrangements of klezmer
music.

http://members.aol.com/klezme2/

**A Collection of Chassic Niggunim
Y.S. Gutfreud, the sound engineer, should be credited for paying close attention to the quality of the music coming over the web from this site, as well as being sensitive to your download times. The chassidic site gives alternative forms for hearing some selected niggunim (songs)with full computer information for you to make judgements about what you'd like to receive.
http://www.kesser.org/audio/niggun.html

Colorado
College
Jewish music course offered through the music department.
http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/music/courses.html

Commission on Synagogue Music:
UAHC (Union of American Hebrew Congregations)
The Commission on Synagogue Music helps coordinate programs and activities
for theReform movement's synagogue arm, including training for musicians,
publication of music, festivals and events, consultation and education
for accessing musical materials for congregations. Training for Synagogue
musicians is offered in close cooperation with Hebrew Union College - School
of Sacred Music, through annual seminars for Synagogue musicians. "Accompanists
and choral directors from all over thecountry come to the School of Sacred
Music in New York each summer and study topics ranging from basic Hebrew
to Jewish choral music in the 19th and 20th centuries. They return to their
congregations with an increased knowledge of our (musical) traditions and
lots of new repertoire."
http://uahcweb.org/music

Country Yossi
Part of a greater website selling lots of country Yossi items including a magazine, the tapes and CD's of Country Yossi are presented.
http://www.countryyossi.com/

David Broza
Commercial site promoting the music of David Broza, popular Israeli rock star. Includes a biography and discography, quotes from critics and some sound samples.
http://Broza.com/

Davka
A three person group of violin, cello and doumbek that intertwines musical traditions of Classical, Middle Eastern and Klezmer with a twist of jazz. They have two CDs, Davka and Lavy's Dream.
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/benj/lavys.html

Den Flygande
Bokrullen
Den Flygande Bokrullen is a five-man group that plays 'Klezmer' music
offering background, music samples, photos and links.
http://voltaire.hgs.se/den_flygande_bokrullen/

Di Naye Kapele
Bob Cohen formed Di Naye Kapelye, a klezmer ensemble, to "present Carpathian klezmer music in its most authentic form. A member of the Jewish Music Research Center at Budapest's ELTE University, Bob has done extensive field research in klezmer and Yiddish music in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Israel. A founding member of the Budapester Klezmer Band, Bob has also performed and toured with Budowitz." The website contains information about the group, its members, links and photos, a discography and articles including "Jewish Musicians in Moldavia" a translation of an article by Itzik Schwartz.
http://www.dinayekapelye.com/DNKfront.htm

The Diaspora Yeshiva Band
This band, formed in the 1970's at the Diaspora Yeshiva in Jerusalem, combines American bluegrass, rock and country music with the chassidic nigun. They gained fame after garnering prizes at the Chassidic Music Festival in Israel in the late 1970's. Today the band consists of eight members and has produced six albums including Melave Malke, At the Gate of Return, The Diaspora Yeshiva Band, and Land of Our Fathers. Samples of their style are available in Real Audio on their website. They sing in both Hebrew and English.
http://www.rockinrabbi.com/diaspora/

Discography
of Jewish Cantors on 78 rpm records
Discography by an enthusiast in covering early recordings between approximately
1904-1920.?Spain.
http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/youtai/cantors/cantoren.html

Edinburgh
Symposium on Jewish Music, University of Edinburgh
A conference site for the Sumposium on Jewish Music held at the University
of Edinburgh held in October, 1996 with a listing of conference precedings.
Links to past events such as the ESEM European Seminar in Ethnomusicology,
held in Oxford in 1994, with full text of selected papers presented are
archived online at this site. Papers of Jehoash Hirshberg and Susana Weich-Shahak
of Hebrew University and are available fulltext.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/research/conferences/

Ellie's Torah Trope Tutor
Ellie Wackerman of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia, has taken the time to mount a Torah Trope tutor on the web. She provides standard Torah trope for Shabbat and holidays, including High Holy Days, the three pilgrimage Festivals (Shalosh Regalim) of Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot, and the trope for Purim. Ellie has a provided simple clear notation along with the trope.
http://www.mat.net/~ewackerm/index2.html

Eric Zeisl
The grandson of Eric Zeisl has mounted an extensive website devoted to the composer. An excellent source of academic materials.
http://www.primenet.com/~randols/zeisl/zeisl.html

Ethnomusicology Online
A peer reviewed webjournal with full text and multi-media presentation
given in conference format with no bibliographies. Scholarly and general
submissions in ethnomusicology and related disciplines are accepted. Homesite
is located at the University of Maryland--Baltimore County with mirror
sites at the University of California School of Arts and Architecture and
University of Bologna Department of Music and Theater. Articles such as:
"Music, Myth and History in the Mediterranean: Diaspora and the Return
to Modernity" by Michael Bohlman and "On Jewish and Muslim musicians of
the Mediterranean" by Amnon Shiloah appear fulltext.
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/

Fialke
A German-based klezmer band infused with the traditions of old violinists like Abe Schwartz, Leibowitz or Solinski. They play Eastern European klezmer and Monika Feil sings in Yiddish. The band consists of clarinet, violin, accordian and bass.
http://www.klein-aber-fein.de/fialke/

Fifty Years of Song
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers a lyrics database for 25 famous Israeli songs with English and Hebrew lyrics as well as the musical score (as a graphics file) for each song. If the URL doesn't work 100%, go to http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/ . Use the GO box for "Israel at 50" and go to the "50 Years of Hebrew Song" link.
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00tx0

Feher Jewish Music Center at Beth Hatefutsoth
Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, is located on the campus of Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv, Israel. The Feher Jewish Music Center, located on the second floor, maintains a collection of more than 4,000 recordings of Jewish music and a computerized database to aid access. The public is invited to listen to music in the collection at the Center. The Center also produces CD's and organizes concerts. The webpage currently features information about a new CD on music from the pre-war Reform Berlin Congregation with samples of the music.
http://www.bh.org.il/Music/index.htm

Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
The Yiddish Musical, Zise Khaloymes (Sweet Dreams), will be staged in NYC at Theatre Four, 424 West 55th Street. Starring Mina Bern and Ibi Kaufman. Artistic direction by Zalmen Mlotek and Eleanor Reissa. English and Russian translations to be provided. For event information call 212-889-6800 x208.

Fran Kleiner
Fran has been singing Yiddish songs for young and old alike, and has spent over 30 years teaching Yiddish, Hebrew, Jewish and folk music to students in Philadelphia. Fran's website includes a bio, concert schedules and contact info.
http://www.franmusic.com/

The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band
This band plays Yiddish, Klezmer, Celtic and Balkan tunes. The five-member band also writes original compositions and performs primarily in Northern California and Oregon.
http://www.jps.net/morissa/freilach.htm

Freylach Spielers
Based in Leeds, England, the five-member Freylach Spielers perform all over the United Kingdom. They perform at concerts, functions and workshops and have a CD. The band does educational work with schools promoting Jewish music.
http://www.freylach-spielers.com/frame.htm

German Klezmer Pages
Provides reviews of CDs, recordings and concerts. Helpful in discovering some newer European bands and events. Includes concert schedules in German cities.
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1791/

Gratz College
The M.A. in Jewish Music program provides advanced study in the field
of Jewish music for teachers and supervisors of Jewish music programs,
researchers, musicologists, choral directors, ritual directors, and hazzanim
(cantors).
http://www.gratzcollege.edu/majmus.html

HaGalil OnLine
A really exciting site from Hanover, Germany promoting Israeli, Jewish, Yiddish and Klezmer music as well as other cultural activities of Judaism from central Europe. Sophisticated Real Audio Direct Streaming Sound 24 Hours "radio" as well as sound selections from recordings. Features many selections of popular Israeli artists, old recordings, chazzanuth and much more. Features cultural sites and information about Jewish communities from Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Austria as well as other European nations.
http://www.hagalil.com/shirim/index.htm

**Halevi Choral Society
The Halevi Choral Society is a professional Jewish choir located in Chicago, IL under the direcction of Judith Karzen. Founded as a community chorus in 1926 by Harry Coopersmith and Hyman Reznick, the choral group, devotes its entire repertoire to Jewish music. Styles include liturgical, Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino and secular Jewish music. The Choral group presents many new works and commissions compositions. The website includes contact information, a history, a mission statement and a concert schedule.
http://www.vjc.org/halevi/

Hanna Yaffe
Produced a CD of lullabies in various languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic and Russian.
http://www.batkol.com/

Harmony Ridge Music
A site dedicated to female singers and songwriters. Look under "world

music" for webpages on Jewish musicians such as Ofra Haza and Judy Frankel.
http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/index.html

Hatikvah Music
Hatikvah Music, located in Los Angeles, California, offers Yiddish, Klezmer, Ladino and Cantorial cassettes and CDs; domestic and imports. Hatikvah, an outgrowth of Norty's Music founded by Norty & Clarice Beckman in 1948, is the oldest Jewish music store in the U.S. As a retailer/distributor, they have extensive and in-depth selections of Jewish Music available and are the exclusive distributor for various  European labels looking for distribution of their Jewish titles. Phone: (323) 655-7083
Hatikvah Music Int., 436 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, Ca., 90036
http://www.hatikvahmusic.com/

Hava Nashira
A Jewish songleaders page offering articles and announcements for youth group and lay songleaders. Information for leaders of youthgroup singing and other events. Includes a useful list of publishers, songbooks and recordings for Reform youth.
http://uahcweb.org/hanashir/

Hazamir

Choir of Helsinki --Judiska Sangforeningen rf
A history of this Finnish Jewish choir online.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aschulma/srk/choirhist.htm

Hed-Arzi Record Company
Hebrew and English website of the Israeli recording company with information
on their artists and how to obtain recordings. This website is so hip and
busy, it's hard to read, but may be worth the wading to many Israeli pop
music fans.
http://www.hed-arzi.co.il/

H.L. Miller Cantorial School: Jewish
Theological Seminary
The Miller Cantorial School trains cantors in the Conservative movement.
http://www.jtsa.edu/

The Hot Latkes Klezmer
Band
Based in London, Ontario, Canada. This professional Klezmer ensemble
was launched in the spring of 1993. The group has developed an extensive
repertoire of Klezmer, Yiddish theatre music and Ladino.
http://www.empath.on.ca/hotlatkes/

House of Harrari
Micah and Shoshanna Harrari manufacture replicas of ancient biblical instruments, a nevel and a kinor, for sale.
http://www.harrariharps.com/

House of Musical
Traditions
House of Musical Traditions Recordings Department and CD Archives.
Contains a listing of Klezmer and Yiddish, liturgical, Israeli, Ladino
and other Jewish recordings. Some listings have selected audio tracks.
http://www.hmtrad.com/records/rec.html

An Informal
Mickey Katz Discography
A brief discography about the recordings of Mickey Katz with links
to contemporary musicians who keep the music alive.
http://www.bayscenes.com/ind/spidra/katzdisco.html

International Jewish music festival
The International Jewish Music is a multi-performance multi-location
festival of Jewish music, with artists convening from all over the world.
With over performances in multiple countries such as last years' held in
The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The 1997 festival was one of the
biggest of its kind. Concerts in the Netherlands were held in The Hague,
Rotterdam, Enschede and Arnhem. The German part of the Festival took place
in Munich and additional performances were in Antwerp, Belgium. Biographical
information on participants is available on the website.
http://www.joods.nl/jmf/

**Isaac Azose, Cantor
Cantor Isaac Azose, retired from Congregation Ezra Besaroth in Seattle has produced a CD called "The Liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth". Many of the prayers are sung in Ladino. The CD features Sephardic liturgy of the Sabbath, Festivals as well as daily prayers.
http://www.ezrabessaroth.org/pages/hazzan.html

Isra Musica
A German site for obtaining recordings of Israeli music with sound bites online in Real Audio.
http://www.pr-net.de/Isra-Musica/

Israel Music Institute
The Israel Music Insitute (IMI) is a publicly owned publishing house. It is a non-profit organization run by the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture. IMI owns the copyright to some 1700 works, by more than 160 Israeli composers. The IMI catalogue contains orchestra, chamber and choral works. The IMI also serves as the Israel Music Information Centre. The web presentation includes catalogues, including forthcoming publications, and a composers gallery which provides brief biographical sketches of composers and a listing of their compositions.
http://www.aquanet.co.il/vip/imi/

Israel Zohar
Israel Zohar is a member and soloist of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. His webpage gives brief career highlights. Includes a listing of CDs and
videos.
http://www.klezmer.co.il/

The Israeli-Jewish-Yiddish-Hebrew-Folk-Cultural
Music Midi Free Library
Midi files of music. Catagories listed as: Religious, Folk, Dance,
Klezmer, and Modern.  Lots of good electronic music.
http://members.aol.com/israelmidi/

Israeli
Klezmer King David Perkins
Excerpts from two CDs.
http://www.israelvisit.co.il/Perkins/index.html

Israeli Music Online
The Israel Hour is a radio program produced in New Brunswick,New Jersey, WRSU-FM 88.7, Sundays, 1-2. The website contains information about Israeli contemporary music, links to news, and feature stories about the current Israeli music scene. The webpresentation of this site has become more organized. Linked through Sabranet.
http://www.sabra.net/theisraelhour/

Jerusalem of Gold
This is a web site not only about the song "Jerusalem of Gold", but the history and meaning of the a jerusalem of gold. The site provides lyrics, translation and musical notation. It also provides historical background of the song Jewish sources relating to the themes.
http://www.jerusalemofgold.co.il

Jewish Cello Music
An informative site about selections of serious music for cello which have Jewish themes. Included is information about each composer and some suggested selections. The author, a cellist, provides "quotes on Jewish music" which is a brief but interesting section.
http://www.cello.org/cnc/jewish.htm

Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles: Jewish Stories and Music
Features children's CDs of Pearl B., Craig Taubman and Karen Goldman. Includes audio files. The JCLLA site also features lists of age appropriate books.
http://www.jclla.org/audio.htm

Jewish Entertainment Resources Directory, JERD, Events Calendar
Artists listed alphabetically and cross referenced by category and a concert calendar by geographic area. Judy Caplan Ginsburgh does this for a hobby. She has over 100 various artists listings, which will get you started. She includes musicians, actors, dancers, storytellers and comedians among other performing arts entertainers. Performers are encouraged to submit listings to the site.
http://www.jewishentertainment.net

Jewish Folklore in Israel
This website is dedicated to Jewish folklore, mainly in Israel, and of many different groups from around the world. The site brings up-to-date news of publications in the field of Jewish folklore. These includes tables of contents, links to academic departments and institutions including the Israel Folktale Archive at University of Haifa, and periodicals in Hebrew and English. Some sets of tables of contents service to journals such as Yuval, of the Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem, and other journals containing articles on dance and Jewish music.
http://www.folklore.org.il/books.htm

Jewish Heritage Online Magazine
A new online magazine about a variety of Jewish topics, giving articles and interviews. Several are by prominent musicologists and writers of Jewish music. The Jewish Heritage Online Magazine is a "web monthly devoted to Jewish text study, culture and heritage. Sponsored by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (NY)... and is a non-denominational webzine, without religious or political platform."
http://www.jhom.com/music/index.htm

The Jewish Music Heritage
Trust
"The Jewish Music Heritage Trust has become the leading promoter of Jewish music in  Britain. Since its work began, in 1983, the Trust has gained recognition on the concert platform, in education and in community relations. The Trust encourages musicians, composers and scholars who are today rediscovering and extending the Jewish repertoire and helping to reveal the role Jewish traditions have played in the history of music."
http://www.jmht.org/trust.html

Jewish Music Institute: Hebrew
College
The Jewish Music Institute provides training for educators in Jewish music and courses of general interest in Jewish music. Their certificate in Jewish music is "designed for Jewish educators, cantorial soloists, ritual directors, lay musicians and all those interested infurthering their knowledge of Jewish music."
http://www.shamash.org/hc/

Jewish
Music List Gopher Site
Full text archival files of the list on Jewish Music, organized by
date.
Gopher://israeli.nysernet.org/11/lists/jewish-music

Jewish Music Listserv
The Jewish music list has discussions about a wide range of Jewish music topics. Klezmer and Yiddish music are heavily discussed. This URL is a code fragment that represents a short cut that will take you to a site on Shamash called the "ListProc Interface." It will allow you to immediately subscribe to the Jewish Music list.
http://shamash.org/cgi-bin/MailServ/listproc2?list=jewish-music&to=listproc@shamash.org

Jewish Music Network
The Jewish Music Network includes online wave files for over 70 songs
online with a searchable index by title or artist. Stereo sound is available.
http://www.jewish-music.com

Jewish-Music:
An Overview by Moshe Denburg
Part of the Tzimmes group from Canada. This page attempts to put some
historical context to Jewish music. There is a graphic representation that
attempts to show musical influences. A brief bibliography of recommended
sources is at the end. Not updated frequently.
http://www2.portal.ca/~jsiegel/about_jm.html#Resources

Jewish Music Research Centre
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Jewish National and University Library of Hebrew University on Givat Ram contains the National Sound Archives and several large special collections of Jewish music. Among these are the A.Z. Idelsohn Archives, the recordings collection of Robert Lachmann and recordings of music from Jews around the world.
http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/jmrc.htm

Jewish Music Research
Centre Publications
Jewish Music Resource Centre Publications include a Table of Contents of the Yuval series with an author index, introduction to new publications printed full text, and a listing of CDs
http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/pubs.htm

Jewish Music Resources
The Zamir Chorale of Boston has a website that includes a select bibliography
of Jewish music in articles and books. A list of journals of interest is
included.
http://www.zamir.org/resources/

Jewish Music Store
Lists Jewish music by category including children, toddler, lullabies and contemporary among other more common categories, such as Israeli, klezmer and holiday.
http://www.jewishstore.com/Music/index.html

Jewish Music Tapes and CD-ROMS
An online catalog of musical recordings can allow purchases through this website. Prices are listed. Many Orthodox CD's are listed, including children's music.
http://www.jerusalembooks.com/tapes.htm

The Jewish Music Web Page
The Tara Publications website. Tara Publications is both a publisher
and distributor of Jewish music of all genres. Their website includes access
descriptions of scores, books and sound recordings. An extensive list of
excerpts from recordings are available using Real Audio. The site includes
a collection of brief biographical sketches of artists and composers of
materials they are selling. Their page links to websites of active recording
and performance artists and groups.
http://www.jewishmusic.com/

Jewish Torah Audio/Jewish
Songs
The Jewish Song online archive contains more than 100 audio clips of
Jewish music online on the Internet. Real Audio is required. Ashkenaz and
Sephardic songs are mounted including songs from rabat Morocco, Shlomo
Carlbach and Chasidic niggunim.
http://www.613.org/music/niggun.html

Jews Brothers Band
A band doing some cafes and Jewish improv in Aukland, New Zealand.
Website has some real audio of cuts from their CD.
http://www.jewsbrothers.com

Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble
A 6-member klezmer group organized in 1994 and performing widely throughout Europe.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/simontov/

Judah Magnes Museum Library and Archives
The Judah Magnes Museum, located in Berkeley, California is open to the public. The Library contains Jewish recorded music and sheet music. Among the collections are a large number of 78 recordings. The Museum asks researchers to phone first and make an appointment at 510-549-6939. They are generally open Sundays--Thursdays, but closed on Jewish and Federal holidays, and are located at 2911 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94705.
http://www.jfed.org/magnes/magnes.htm

Judith R. Cohen
Contains information about Dr. Judith R. Cohen of Canada and samples of Sephardic music. She performs and lectures and is a founding member of "Gerineldo, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan Judeo-Spanish ensemble, and is the founder-director of Nova Tradicija, an a capella ensemble specializing in Balkan singing."
http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/judithc/judith_cohen.htm

Judy Frankel
Judy Frankel's page includes a brief biography, discography, reviews
and a catalog of her recordings. Real Audio samples are available.
http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/artists/jfart.html

Kabalas Klez-Kat Korner
Exhuberant local site promoting the music of a youthful set of musicians from Moline, Illinois (Quad Cities) described by local press as a "vaudeville inspired, polka-delic klezmer act."
http://www.qconline.com/kabalas/index_a.htm

Kalish on the Web
This website by John Kalish serves as a small radio archive of broadcasts
from various NPR programs that deal with Jewish music topics. It also contains
various columns by the author written for newspapers and wire services.
http://www.jcn18.com/newstand/kalish/

Kame'a Media
The website of Wolf Krakowski promotes his recordings which incorporate
Yiddish and modern musical elements. Musical samples are available at the
site.
http://www.kamea.com/ target="blank"

KdamEurovision
Israel at Eurovision. A website about the KdamEurovision Song Contest,
a popular yearly music contest held in Israel for popular music. The top
winners go on to the Eurovision contest, which is a coveted prize in popular
music in Europe and leads to large recording contracts. This kdam website
includes a listing for every contest held since 1973 with information and
weblinks about the artists and songs. This site is a good place to learn
about a history of pop music in Israel although there is no confirmation
about the qualifications of the source of this information.
http://www.brynjar.com/adar/kdam

Klez Dispensers
Princeton University's brand new Klezmer Band founded in the Fall, 1998. The web presentation has a wonderful history of klezmer written by Evan Variano.
http://www.princeton.edu/~klez/

Klezfolk
Online
Part of Ari Davidow's Klez Shack site, Klezfolk Online is an alphabetical
listing of performers of klezmer music with contact information, usually
an email address, and linked to information about bands, radio shows and
sheet music.
http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/klezcontacts.html

Klezical
Tradition
The Klezical Tradition is a klezmer band based in western New England.
http://members.aol.com/klezical/tradition.html

KlezKanada
This year's KlezKanada will be held from August 18th to 22nd inclusive, at its usual site the Camp B'nai Brith in Lantier, Quebec. For further information or communication see the website http://www.KlezKanada.com or e-mail address, jecerc@total.net, or by phone: (514)345-2610 or by fax:(514) 735-2175. Or write to: Klez Kanada, Cummings House, 5151 Cote St. Catherine Road, Montreal, Quebec, H3W 1M6
http://www.KlezKanada.com

Klezmer Bands by Location Around the World
Part of Ari Davidow's Klez Shack site, Klezmer Bands by Location is an alphabetical listing by location of performers of klezmer music. Contact information, usually an email address, is linked to further information elsewhere on the site about the bands.
http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/contacts/klezbyloc.html

The Klezmer Conservatory
Band
Now in its fourteenth season and based in Boston, the Klezmer Conservatory
Band has performed concerts from coast to coast and has seven albums: Yiddishe
Renaissance, Klez, and A Touch of Klez , Oy Chanukah, A Jumpin' Night in
the Garden of Eden, OldWorld Beat and their latest release, Live!
http://www.aaronconcert.com/acm/kcb.htm

Klezmer -gesellschaft Page
The Klezmer-gesellschaft e.V. is a union of artistic amateurs, semiprofessional and professional musicians as well as friends and patrons of mutual cultural and artistic concerns. The klezmer-gesellschaft endeavours to take up and to support actual and traditional musical styles of different cultures. The klezmer-gesellschaft e.v. has been founded in 1990 in Berlin as a non-profit society. World famous clarinetist Giora Feidman is one of approx. 150 members. The page offers record reviews, links to webpages of musical groups, radio programs, and audio samples.
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1741/

The
Klezmer Hour
Hosted by Seth Rogovoy and orginiating from Williams College radio
station WCFM (91.9 FM) in Williamstown, MA. Broadcast in real time on the
Internet, Tuesdays, 9pm Eastern time.
http://www.wso.williams.edu/orgs/WCFM/readaudio.html

Klezmer
and Yiddish Radio Shows
Organized by location, Ari Davidow's listing of radio shows with klezmer
and Yiddish music contains information about the location of the show,
times, area coverage, and content notes.
http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/contacts/klezradio.html

Klezmischpoche Luebars
Large performing group in Berlin. They have a CD called Oifn Jorid. The webpage is in German and gives some details about where and when they perform.
http://www.freilach.com/Labsaal/klezmisch.htm

The Klezmorim of Prague">
An article by Gerben Zaagsma translated into English from the Dutch and published in Historisch Tijdschrift 143/32 (december 1998) 223-230, is now available online. It concerns the history of a Jewish folk music guild from the seventeenth and eighteenth century Prague.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/zaagsma.prague.html

Klezmos: World-Klez
Music
The Klezmos webpage provides a calendar of upcoming programs, information
on group members and contact information.
http://www.dc.net/wendy/klezmos.html

**Kosher Korner
"We play a wide range of Klezmer, spiritual rock, Israeli, Yiddish, comedy and just about anything else Jewish I can get my hands on."--Arye Berk
http://www.usc.uwo.ca/clubs/jsu

Leeds International Klezmer Festival
A report on the The Leeds International Klezmer Festival held in August, 1998, is now available online. Over 400 people attended the Grand Concert and over 80 participated in workshops. The festival aimed to provide 2 days of instrumental and non-instrumental workshops around the broad themes of klezmer in particular and Jewish music in general. Located in Leeds, England.
http://www.klezmer.co.uk/klezfest/

**Listen Up! A Cappella
A Chicago-based singing group, they bill themselves as the only "pop-klezmer-jazz-yiddish-hebrew-country-western band". Their site provides some sound clips and information about this group of five young singers. Very upbeat sound.
http://www.jewishsong.com/

Live Radio on the Web
A guide to radio stations broadcasting in Real Audio called "Mike's World". Scroll down to Israel and there are six different stations that can be listened to from Israel live. Must have Real Audio capabilities. Can listen to everything from Israeli "top-40-style" to Chassidic music.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/place/abn39/lint.htm

9th London International Jewish Music Festival
"The Festival is part of Jewish Music Festivals of Europe and is associated
with Bnai Brith. This year's London International Jewish Music Festival,
World of Jewish Music, 1-29 November, includes music from around the world
and focuses on the music of Israel today. Festival Director, Geraldine
Auerbach, of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust says, 'We want to show the
rich cultural diversity of music from Israel where ancient and
modern tradition mix with Eastern and Western Styles, creating new
and exciting syntheses.' The month-long festival, sponsored by the Jewish
Chronicle, has over forty events, both light hearted and more serious,
at the Barbican, the South Bank Centre, St John's Smith Square and other
venues."
http://www.jmht.org/festival98/index.html

**Main Klezmer Modes
Josh Horowitz is a musicologist and tsimbl player living in Austria who works extensively with early Klezmer instruments. His extensive article on klezmer modes is scheduled to be published in a scholarly journal. This online article summarizes and explains the theoretical base, the main types of modes and the modal progressions in European klezmer music.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/horowitz/horowitz.klezmodes.html

**Marcelo Bruckman, Cantor
The cantor of the Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay has a webpage dedicated to his teachers and a vitae. In Spanish and English. He includes audio clips of cantor and choir with enjoyable melodies and arrangements.
http://www.arroba.nu/jazan/

Mark Bloom
A Minnesota musician has mounted a website about his programs, recordings
and band. Sample reviews are offered as references about the quality of
his work.
http://www.markbloom.com/

Matti Caspi
A Matti Caspi fan site with links to audio and biographical information. Includes a link to Israel-at-50 site with bios of dozens of Israeli performers.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/2262/

Maven: Music
Maven is a megasite which lists various Internet sources around thE
world. The music page contains an extensive alphabetic listing of Internet
sites concerned with Jewish music. There are some annotations. Sites are
ungraded.
http://www.maven.co.il/subjects/idx196.htm

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
A Chicago based klezmer band. Site lists the band's upcoming concert dates and some CD's. It includes a nice page with bios of the musicians.
http://www.klezmerband.com/

Michoel Streicher
A leading Orthodox performer, originally from Boro Park, but now residing in Israel. http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/music/mstreicher/index.htm

Mika's Klezmer
pages
Mika Kovalainen's klezmer fan/link page to klezmer and folk music sites.
Lists musical groups alphabetically. Of special interest is a glossary
of klezmer and other musical terms.
http://www.astrakan.hgs.se/~kryp/klezmer.htm

Mikey Katz Haim Page
A Mickey Katz fan-- What a surprise! :-) No, here is a page attempting to capture the spirit of Mickey Katz and what's more, the author gives great information on the discography of Katz with an attempt to be as complete as possible in all formats. This web presentation is an excellent way to get recording names and numbers to 'get at the doings' of Mickey Katz. Even the titles will make you laugh.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~lederm3/katzmain.htm

Mining Co. Guide to World
Music
A variety of links to various sites with a focus in world music. "Jewish/Israeli" provides an annotated list of various websites, including a link to midi files for Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish and American Jewish songs.
http://worldmusic.miningco.com/

Musi-Cal North American
Folk Music and Dance Alliance
Use the search function and type "klezmer" for a chronological listing
of several upcoming events. Gives dates, time, place and links to band
websites. Includes links to venue locations with local contact information,
which is very helpful for those wishing to attend the concerts.
http://concerts.calendar.com/

Musical Groups--University of Judaism
Describes the composition and purpose of the various musical groups at the University of Judaism campus.
http://www.uj.edu/cas/msicgrp.htm

The Music of Abraham Fried Presents an interview with Avraham Fried and also online samples of music from his CD's. Quite a bit of online music available. One of the top Orthodox music composers with a rock sound to texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Blends traditional and popular music. http://www.thinkjewish.com/fried_music.html

Music
of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
The Abayudaya music was recorded by Kohavim Tikvah, the youth singing
group of the Abayudaya Congregation.
http://www.intac.com/PubService/uganda/music.html

Musicology
and Music History
Indiana University School of Music. An alphabetical arrangement with
major links to excellent general musical studies sources. These links lead
to most major academic sources in music history and organizations on the
web. Updated frequently. Recommended site.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/mcology.html

National Sound
Archive, Jewish National and University Library
Hebrew University's ongoing projects to have full music archives available
in DAT format for many special collections in the Jewish National Library.
Website gives introductory information.
http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/res.htm

Nefesh
Located in Southbury, Connecticut, this band serves the local communities surrounding Waterbury.
http://members.tripod.com/NefeshBand/index.htm

Neima
A new organization designed to be an umbrella for Jewish music organizations
on college campuses. There are links sites of Jewish choirs and music groups
on college campuses.
http://www.neima.org/

Nigun: Society
for the promotion and exploration of Jewish music
Nigun is a society located in Duisburg, Germany dedicated to the promotion
and exploration of Jewish music. The society sponsors a website, a competition
of Jewish music, and information on Jewish music and synagogue poetry.
http://sti1.uni-duisburg.de/Nigun/English/

NMCity
NMCity is a record company in Israel. The website provides multimedia
access to a wide range of genres in Israeli music.
http://www.nmc-music.co.il/

North American Jewish Choral Festival
The Tenth Annual Jewish Choral Festival is a participatory event giving individuals opportunity to heaR and sing Jewish choral music. It includes daily community singing, "instant ensembles", evening concerts and late night events including Yiddish and contemporary Jewish music. There is a form for requesting more information at the website.
http://www.zamirfdn.org/festival.htm

Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza webpage with Harmony Ridge Music. Site includes a catalog
of her recordings, brief career biography and reviews.
http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/discos/ohframe.html target="blank"

OHRADIO
Ohradio is a music website sponsored by IsraelVisit. Ohradio is a new
Jerusalem-based producer of music CD's and audio dramas.  The first
two releases are The Mysterious Golem of Prague, a full length audio drama,
starring Leonard Nimoy (Startrek's Mr. Spock), and PROPHECY, Music from
the Kabbalah.
http://www.israelvisit.co.il/ohradio/index.html target="blank"

**Orbis Musicae--ASSAPH
Table of Contents listed. "Orbis Musicae is an international musicological journal published by the Department of Musicology of Tel-Aviv University...While the journal publishes articles and books reviews (mostly in English, but with occasional contributions in German and French) dealing with all aspects of musicology, the editors have attempted in the past to emphasise the music of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin. The articles in Orbis Musicae are often illustrated with musical examples and other material."
http://www.tau.ac.il/arts/publications/orbis.html

The Philip & Sarah Belz School
of Jewish Music:Yeshiva University
The Belz School trains cantors and is affiliated with Yeshiva University.
http://www.yu.edu/belz/ target="blank"

Polish
Jewish Music International Conference
The Polish Jewish Music International Conference was held November
15-16, 1998 in Los Angeles California at the School of Music, University
of Southern California. This conference, the first of its kind, attempted to fill some of the larger gaps in Polish music history by highlighting
the richness of achievements of Polish composers of Jewish descent and
Jewish music in Poland. It attempted to emphasize the complexity of
cultural relationships between the two ethnic groups, including both assimilation and coexistence. Discussion centered on composed music and groups of musicians (klezmer) and communities. For more information, including a list of sponsors, visit the website.
http://www.usc.edu/go/polish_music/news/events/pjconf.html

Radio Hazak:
Israeli Music on the Web
Information on artists, news and reviews, and a message board about
Israeli pop music. To learn "what's new, what's hot, and what's classic"
about Israeli music. Produced by Larry Yudelson, an enthusiast in the United
States. Useful for some English translations of Israeli songs and following
the interests of young people.
http://www.radiohazak.com/

Raizie Benguigui
Raizie is a singer who has fused traditional lyrics with modern rhythms, singing in four languages (English, Hebrew, French and Spanish). Raizie has performed for women audiences in Venezuela, Israel and Canada and has produced a CD for Jewish women.
http://www.raizie.com/

RebbeSoul
"The exciting six-piece, world beat band, featuring vocals, balalaika, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, and exotic percussion, plays material from their three CDs plus traditional and new songs."
http://www.rebbesoul.com/

Rejuvenating Heritage--KEOS,Bryan, Texas
Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, English Jewish music, comedy, folklore and theater are featured on this show by Michael Sherman in Bryan, Texas at radio station KEOS-FM.
http://stat.tamu.edu/~sherman/KEOS/Klezmershow.html

Renanot Institute for Jewish
Music
Renanot Institute is dedicated to rescuing music of people "whose musical
traditions are being forgotten." The website includes over 300 items of
Jewish music and over 3,000 songs and poems and is sponsored by Shema Yisrael
Torah Network. It is located at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel.
The Institute houses a collection of Jewish musical instruments from various
traditions. The website provides access to a catalogue for information
about and purchase of scores and cassettes for Jewish liturgy in Ashkenaz,
Sepharad, Moroccan and Yemenite traditions including the Shabbat and festival
liturgies, the parashat havshavua and even entire the cantillation of the
entire Torah.
http://www.renanot.co.il/

Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of the University of Pennsylvania
An "archive or over 3,000 Yiddish folk and art songs, theater music, comedy and klezmer music in songbooks, reference works and sound recordings." There is a searchable database in Yiddish and English with more than 25,000 entries.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/friends/freed/

Rubinchik's Orkestyr
Newly formed Jewish band in Austin, Texas. Currently 7 members with a CD Flipnotics Freilachs.
http://www.nonpareil.net/rubinchik/

Sabbath Hela
Veckan
Sabbath Hela Veckan is an instrumental sextet based in Sweden with
Members from Sweden, the US and Finland. Formed in 1989 their repetoire
is "a musical and visual experience in Klezmer, Gypsy and east-European
music."
http://www.sami.se/art/pbothen/homee1.htm

Sabin Family Music Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
The Music Collections support the curriculum of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School. Besides a general music reference collection, the library includes more than 5,500 sound recordings, extensive collections of printed music, particularly in cantorial music, a large Yiddish sheet music collection, and cantorial and folk manuscripts and sheet music. There are also collections of classical music with Jewish themes and Jewish popular music. Of special note are the special collections of Herbert Fromm and Solomon Rosowsky. Published catalogs of these two collections are available from JTS. The catalog of the special collection of Max Wohlberg is scheduled to be published. For more information contact Music Archivist, Eliott Kahn.
http://www.jtsa.edu/library/collect/colmus.html

Sabramusic
Sabranet, a site that attempts to be a complete guide to Israeli-related
Internet sites, was created by Eyal Dunkel in 1995. The main page connects
to links on Israeli music files with excerpts from popular Israeli music
in Real Audio file format.
http://www.sabra.net/sabramusic.html

School of Sacred Music:
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
The School of Sacred Music trains cantors for the Reform movement.
http://huc.edu/catalog/smny.html

Second Avenue Online
The Spielberg-funded digital archive website set up by New York University's Center for Advanced Technology on Yiddish Theatre. The website includes a history and chronology of Yiddish Theater in America, with links to brief biographies of key figures and some photos. There are listings of archival institutions that hold materials on Yiddish theatre. Many of those libraries, museums and archives include sheet music or sound recordings. Most of the histories online are written by a one or two individuals and there are few footnotes link to names of resources from the archive. However this is a fun resource for students. Eventually the site will include oral histories, manuscripts and scores, letters, photos, and will feature an interactive 3-D "walk through" of a theater. The project originated with Ann Ronnell, (one of Hollywood's first successful female lyricist and composer) who wanted to create a project on Jewish composers and lyricists of theater and film, (according to the September 17, 1999 Jewish Week). New York University also houses the Sholom Secunda Archives.
http://yap.cat.nyu.edu/

Seth
Rogovoy Reviews
Periodic concert and CD reviews by a journalist.
http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/klezmer/index.html

Shamash: Arts
Shamash contains a directory of sites of Jewish interest. The arts
section includes sites of interest in Jewish music.
http://www.shamash.org/arts/

Shawn's Kugel
This site provides scores of klezmer music directly on the web with
pdf files. It also includes links to websites of klezmer bands in the Seattle
and greater northwest area and a few recipes. (presumably to eat after
you play the music).
http://members.aol.com/shawnkugel/kugel.html

Sheet
music
Ari Davidow at his Klez Shack site has amassed a list of sheet music
publishers and vendors involved with klezmer and chassidic music.
http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/contacts/klezvendors.html

Shema Yisrael Music
Section
A media intensive site, this page is a project of the Shema Yisrael
Torah Network. It consists of a selection of webpages by various artists
which provide a listing of their books and records with their contents.
All sorts of music including children's, religious, Yiddish and Israeli
and American Jewish secular songs are included. The jukebox experienced
difficulties frequently.
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/music/

**Shmuel Mashiach Orchestra
A Chicago based simcha band which performs around the midwest area. The band considers their orchestrations and style updated. The site lists contact information, a history of the band and a list of their repertoire.
http://www.jewishbands.com/

Shofar
Mounted by Matthew H. Fields, this page was intended to explain the
history and sound of the shofar. Dr. Fields used the shofar as the basis
of a 1992 composition.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fields/shofar1.htm

A Short Bibliography of Sephardic Music
Judith Cohen, a Toronto-based musicologist and specialist in Sephardic music, has compiled a brief discography and bibliography.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/9903.cohen_j.sephardic.html

Shulmusic
Shulmusic is a website devoted to music of the synagogue and all Jewish liturgical music. The aim of the site is to become a global resource for Jewish liturgical music. Musical scores for various holidays and events are provided online.
http://shulmusic.org/

Song in Hassidic Life
Velvel Pasternak has written an extensive article which is published on the Tara Music website. It provides an overview and history of various types of chassidic music and its role in the Jewish life and customs of that community.
http://www.tara.com/cgi-bin/vsc/articl02.htm?L+tarashop+vsjk7270+877113102

Sounding the Shofar
The Magnes Museum has mounted a musical web exhibit demonstrating traditional
shofar blasts. http://www.jfed.org/magnes/shofar.htm

Sounds Write Productions
Provides information and distribution of the recordings, song books and videos of Debbie Friedman, Julie Silver, and Randee Friedman. Fans of these Jewish women songwriter/singers will find this a very convenient site. Children's music is designated by a special icon.
http://www.soundswrite.com/

Symposium on Jewish Music, University of Edinburgh
A conference site for the Symposium on Jewish Music held at the University of Edinburgh held in October, 1996 with a listing of conference precedings. Links to past events such as the ESEM European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, held in Oxford in 1994, with full text of selected papers presented are archived online at this site. Papers of Jehoash Hirshberg and Susana Weich-Shahak of Hebrew University and are available fulltext.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/conferences/

Sylvain Elzam
Cantor Sylvain Elzam has released six CDs of music including Piyyutim, Selichos, with chazzanos for Sephardic and Ashkenazic nusach traditions. He also has recorded some songs in Ladino.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7468/mycd.htm

Tanja Solnik
Tanja Solnik sings traditional Jewish lullabies in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew.
http://www.tanjasolnik.com/

Tara Publications
The Tara Publications website. Tara Publications is both a publisher
and distributor of Jewish music of all genres. Their website includes access
descriptions of scores, books and sound recordings. An extensive list of
excerpts from recordings are available using Real Audio. The site includes
a collection of brief biographical sketches of artists and composers of
materials they are selling. Their page links to websites of active recording
and performance artists and groups.
http://www.jewishmusic.com/

Tara Publications Virtual Listening
Station
The Virtual Listening Station is an extensive list of excerpts from
recordings using Real Audio. Tara Publications is both a publisher and
distributor of Jewish music of all genres. Their website includes access
descriptions of scores, books and sound recordings. Their page links to
websites of active recording and performance artists and groups, and 
includes brief biographical sketches of artists and composers.
http://www.jewishmusic.com/

Tischler
Collection of Music by Israeli Composers
Alice Tischler's collection of music by Israeli composers, gathered
for her book, are now part of a special collection at the William and Gayle
Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music. This collection
is not yet catalogued, but is described as vast. For more information,
see her book, A

descriptive bibliography of art music by Israeli composers, in
our library's collection.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/collections/tischler.html
Music Ref ML120 .I75 T57 1988

Transcontinental
Music
"Transcontinental Music Publications/New Jewish Music Press, the music
publishing arm of the Reform movement, publishes a wide variety of musical
materials for synagogue and home use. Since it is the largest publisher
of Jewish choral music in the world, it serves as the single most important
resource for all community groups such as schools, universities, churches,
and libraries." Ordering information included at site.
http://shamash.org/reform/uahc/transmp/

**
Israeli composer. Website includes a brief biography, a discography of CDs, a list of compositions with information about publicaton, manuscript, or performance, or recording and some links to articles by the composer.
http://members.nbci.com/tsfleischer/

Tunes: The Intelligent Music Network
For purchasing and hearing samples of music. Look under "world" music
for cantorial and klezmer musical samples, such as recordings by the Klezmer
Conservatory Orchestra. There are also Israeli and Middle Eastern recordings
to play. Requires Real Audio. Offers an index of recordings by artists.
http://www.tunes.com

Two Candles
A recording for Jewish children by Stephen Melzack. The website has online samples.
www.twocandles.com

Tzadik
Tzadik releases avant garde and experimental music, including a division labeled "radical Jewish culture", "Japan series" and "lunatic fringe." John Zorn is the creative talent organizing and producing this music. Many will be fascinated by the eclectic blend of American jazz, world music, Jewish, contemporary classical and other elements. Real Audio segments give an audio window on this world.
http://www.tzadik.com/

Tzimmes
Tzimmes is a musical group based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Tzimmes
offers a program that "emphasizes the tremendous diversity within Jewish
music." They sing klezmer tunes, Sephardic and No minent lecturer and professor of theory, composition and electronic music, he is member of the faculty of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance and one of the leading figures in Israel's music scene today." The website has a biography, a selected list of works and where they were published, a discography and audio samples.
http://www.tzvi-avni.com/

University
of Florida, Music Department, College of Fine Arts
MUH 3621 Jewish Art Music in Western Culture.
A cultural history of western art music inspired by Jewish subjects,
Biblical and non-Biblical, composed by both Jewish and non-Jewish composers,
and a survey of Jewish performing musicians from the Renaissance to the
present.
http://www.reg.ufl.edu/97-98catalog/music.htm

Voice of the Turtle
Voice of the Turtle is a Boston-based group specializing in the music of the Jews of Spain. The group "learns most of its repertoire from field recordings housed in Jerusalem at the Jewish Music Research Center, at Hebrew University and at the radio station Kol Yisrael. These versions were collected by radio-journalists, scholars, and ethnomusicologists from Sephardi communities in Israel,documenting many versions of the songs which have been preserved by oral tradition." Their website includes information on the performers, their instruments, and the group through FAQs. Artistic Director, Judith Wachs.
http://www.voiceoftheturtle.com

Vurma
Vurma is a klezmer sextet based in Stockholm.
http://hem1.passagen.se/vurma/

Wembley Shul Choir
A temple Choir from the Wembley United Synagogue, located in Wembley, a suburb northwest of London. The site includes an interesting history of the group, a bit of philosophy on their music and audio clips of selected works.
http://www.j-geek.org/choir/index.html

The Western Wind
An a cappella group heard for a number of years on NPR for programs
such as  The Birthday of the World, The Chanukkah Story and The Passover
Story. Along with Jewish music they have recordings on early American folk
and art music.
http://www.westernwind.org/

Wolf Krakowski
An online review of the recording Transmigrations by Wolf Krakowski.
http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-40997/WolfEng.htm

The Workman's Circle/Arbeter Ring
"The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, dedicated to fostering Jewish identity and participation in Jewish life, among its members through Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice. The Jewish Workmen's Circle sponsors concerts of Yiddish and other Jewish music. They also publish music, audio cassettes, films and videos with music in Yiddish and English.
http://www.circle.org/public/default.htm

Yerachmiel Begun and the Miami Boys Choir
This website features information about current albums, a clearly arranged listing of concert schedules, music samples and enthusiasm in a visual site.
http://www.ybandmbc.com

Yiddish
Music Collection
Finding guide to the Brandeis University Library Special Collections
Yiddish Sheet Music Collection.
http://www.library.brandeis.edu/spcoll/judaica.html

Yiddish Song: An A-Z of Research,
Abbi Wood, currently completing a PhD thesis on Yiddish folk song in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK, has compiled a bibliography on Yiddish music. Texts are primarily from English language sources. Bibliography broken into genres, thematic and subject-oriented sections.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/wood_yiddish_a2z_biblio.html

Yiddish
Song Database
This database catalogues the Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of Jewish
Music at the University of Pennsylvania Library. It contains 1720 recordings,
which comprise 24886 selections.
http://www.cs.uky.edu/raphael-cgi-bin/yidsong.cgi

The Yiddish Voice --WUNR
The Yiddish Voice isa local Boston Jewish music radio program heard
on WUNR, 1600 AM, Brookline, MA. Wed. 7:30-8:30.
http://www.yv.org

YIVO Archives and Library
YIVO holds one of the world's largest collections of Eastern European Jewish sound recordings and Jewish sheet music. Materials must be consulted onsite. Researchers are requested to call for an appointment for access to the Archives. Located (currently) at 555 W. 57th Street in New York City, YIVO is open Monday-Thursday. Phone: 212-246-6080.
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/yivo/

Yuval Series Bibliography
Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centre regularly publishes works in the journal Yuval and a monograph series on Jewish music. These publications provide superb and detailed academic sources in Jewish music.
http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/pubs.htm

YUVAL Italia--Centro di studi sulla musica ebraica
YUVAL Italia - The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music (Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica), was founded in January 1997, in Milan, Italy. Its fundamental purpose is to provide written and aural documentation of Jewish musical traditions, particularly those in Italy. It holds a Library and a Sound Archive, and provides contacts to musicians and music festivals throughout the country. The Center, founded with the aid of Professor Israel Adler, is the first of its kind in Italy and operates in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. YUVAL Italia is currently directed by Dr.Francesco Spagnolo. YUVAL produces a weekly live radio show from Radio Popolare, Milan.
E-mail: yuval@powerlink.it.
For more information you may write to the following address:
YUVAL Italia --Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica
via della Guastalla, 19
20122 Milano, ITALY.
tel/fax +39 02 55014977
http://www.powerlink.it/yuval/english.html

Za'atar
Za'atar is a band dedicated to the performance of the vibrant music
of the Jewish Mizrahi and Sephardic cultures.
http://geocities.com/soho/exhibit/3145/

Zamir Chorale
Zamir Chorale concert schedule and excerpts from recordings are available
at their website. This site also contains links to Jewish music resources.
http://www.zamir.org

Zamir Choral Foundation, Inc.
"The Zamir Choral Foundation, Inc. is the only foundation in North
America dedicated to the promotion, advancement and perpetuation of the
Jewish people through the music of its people, specifically Jewish choral
music. Originally founded as an individual choir in 1960, the Zamir Chorale
sparked a renewal of the Jewish choral movement, and the creation of several
choirs with similar goals. Zamir, as a choral foundation, now provides
unique leadership in the sustenance, development and advancement of the
Jewish choral tradition in North America."
http://www.zamirfdn.org

**The Zemel Choir
The Zemel Choir, founded in 1955 and located in London, UK, is a mixed voice choir that performs extensively in the UK, Israel and elsewhere. The repertoire is inclusive of Jewish liturgical, Israeli, madgrigals, modern and classical music. The choir has performed internationally at festivals, concerts, on the BBC and other media venues. The choir prides itself on its high musical standards.
http://www.the-zemel-choir.org/

Zemerl: The Interactive Database of Jewish Song
The Zemerl Database provides lyrics, information and sounds of Jewish songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino. The songs in the database are available by general thematic categories. The information includes title, composer, lyricist and language. There are sometimes included a short commentary about a song. The website invites inquiries about new songs and features articles and recommended reading. Developed by Inna Barmash at Princeton University.
http://www.princeton.edu/zemerl/

Zlata Razdolina
A composer and singer. Most of her repertoire of more than six hundred romances and songs is composed on texts of the famous Russian classical poets, A. Akhmatova, N.Gumilyov, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetayeva, A. Blok, I. Severyanin, S.Yesenin and others. In Israel she has written music for symphony orchestras, choirs and chamber ensembles. To contact her directly: razdolin@netvision.net.il
http://www.geocities.com/razdolina/

Zoila
Agentinian woman presents Yiddish songs and information on her recordings.
http://www.zoila.com/frame3.html