Jewish Music: An Overview
by Moshe Denberg

by Cantor Janis Guralnik

by Bob Gluck

The Milken Archive was founded in 1990 to document, preserve, and disseminate the vast body of music that pertains to the American Jewish experience.

Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer. While some elements of Jewish music may originate in biblical times, differences of rhythm and sound can be found among later Jewish communities that have been musically influenced by location. In the nineteenth century, religious reform led to composition of ecclesiastic music in the styles of classical music. A number of modern Jewish composers have been aware of and influenced by the different traditions of Jewish music.

Edition:Rev. ed.
Published/Created:New York : National Jewish Music Council, 1955.
Physical Description:12 p. ; 29 cm.

Jewish music : its historical development / Abraham Z. Idelsohn ; with a new introduction by Arbie Orenstein.

Brief explanations of the origin and meaning of each piece along with lyrics, included in insert.
Recorded between 1998-2003 in Baltimore, London, Barcelona, New York, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Worcester, Mass.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Melodies and unacc. choruses (in part with solo voice): words in Hebrew (transliterated), with Hebrew words and English translation at end of each piece.
Edited by Chemjo Vinaver.

Sung in Hebrew, Ladino and Spanish.
Descriptive notes, bibliography, song texts and translations (8 p.) in container.
Recorded in Tetuan and Tangier, ca. 1956.