Online resources

Ashkenazi Jewish Liturgy – André Stora

Website of André Stora, Cantor who officiated at the Nancy synagogue and an emblematic figure of the Ashkenazi tradition in Alsace-Lorraine, offering downloads of Ashkenazi liturgical scores …

S & P Central

A rich, multilingual website listing the locations, practices, and traditions of the main communities of Spanish and Portuguese Jews around the world …

Zemereshet

(Israel, Hebrew website) Website dedicated to preserving and disseminating the repertoire of Hebrew songs from the beginnings of Zionism to the creation of the State of Israel …

Sephardic Pizmonim Project

Digital archive of the Sephardic community of Aleppo …

Heichal Menachem

(New York, United States) Lubavitch website giving access to over 500 traditional nigunim that can be listened online! …

Foundation ILMC

Created in 2014, the ILMC Foundation aims to protect and enhance the musical heritage written in concentration camps and other places of military and civilian captivity around the world between 1933 and 1953 and collected by Francesco Lotoro …

GHARAMOPHONE

This website, dedicated to the preservation of North African sound archives, presents several dozen 78 rpm records that can be listened to online …

The Samy Elmaghribi Foundation

The Samy Elmaghribi Foundation was created on August 21, 2014, in Montreal (Canada), by the children of Salomon Amzallag (1922-2008) and Messody Cohen (1923-2015) in order to perpetuate the teachings …

Kinor David Maroc

(Morocco) Association of lovers of Arabo-Judeo-Andalusian music. Videos and photos …

yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info

(Russia) Website dedicated to Yiddish songs and music. Many audio files from 33 RPM and 78 RPM freely available …

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