Italy
17/10/2023
Jewish Italian Music
This well-documented site provides access to hundreds of online documents (audios, scores, photos...) that testify to the rich heritage of Italian Jewish music …
16/10/2023
Inventory of Italian Jewish musical archives
As part of the European Jewish Music Network program initiated by the IEMJ, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane - UCEI) has launched in 2022-2023 a registry of Italian Jewish music archives …
13/10/2023
The Music of the Jews in Italy: A Short Introduction
The history of Jewish music in Italy is long, fascinating, and filled with contradictions. Length is due to the very history of Italian Jewry, whose origins go back more than …
19/04/2022
Canti del Tempio Maggiore di Roma (I tomo)
The first of two volumes devoted to the heritage of liturgical chants of the Jewish community of Rome, this work by Pasquale Troìa studies for the first time the musical manuscripts of the Historical Archives of the Jewish Community of Rome …
18/04/2022
Piattelli, Elio (1910-2001)
Born in Rome on May 30, 1910, Elio Piattelli graduated in 1931 from the University of Rome with a degree in Literature with the highest mark of “110 out of …
18/02/2021
Esther, a Purim oratorio by the composer Lidarti (1730- ap. 1793)
Rediscovered in 1997, the score of the oratorio Ester (1774) by the composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti is to this day the longest and richest work of all Hebrew art music …
20/01/2021
Shabbat songs in the Italian rites
A selection of Italian Shabbat songs (Roman, Sefardic and Provencal rites…) performed by Albert Funaro, Gadiel Liscia, Bruno Polacco, David Prato... …
21/09/2020
The selichot in the Italian rites
A selection of selichot performed by Alberto Funaro, Bruno Polacco, Aldo Perez, Fernando Belgrado as well as the cantors and worshippers from the Maggiore and Spagnolo temples of Rome… …
30/03/2020
Article (in Italian) by Gianni DIENA, talking about his collaboration with the EIJM, to make known the Italian Jews in France
Concerned to make known the Italian judaism and its musical traditions, quite unrecognized, Gianni Diena, recently deposited to the European Institute for Jewish Music several documents. Browse his collection In …
22/11/2018
Ledor Vador : Hebraic music in Italy during the Renaissance
8th radio show hosted by Hector Sabo, broadcasted on Radio Judaïca Strasbourg in 2017. …