Italy

Jewish Italian Music

The Online Thesaurus of Jewish Italian Music (OTJIM) is an online searchable database offering an organized access to recorded material, transcriptions and sheet music pertaining to the Jewish Italian repertories and …

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 …

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 …

Canti del Tempio Maggiore di Roma (I tomo)

By Pasquale Troìa[1]Pasquale Troìa is Professor of Bible and Music at the ISSR Mater Ecclesiae and at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, Rome., Alberto Funaro, Claudio Di …

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 …

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 …

Shabbat songs in the Italian rites

A selection of Italian Shabbat songs (Roman, Sephardic and Provencal rites…) performed by Albert Funaro, Gadiel Liscia, Bruno Polacco, David Prato The Shabbat, the day of rest, is a very …

The selichot in the Italian rites

A selection of selichot performed by Alberto Funaro, Bruno Polacco, Aldo Perez, Fernando Belgrado and the singers and faithful of the Maggiore and Spagnolo temples of Rome …

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 …

Ledor Vador : Hebraic music in Italy during the Renaissance

Ledor Vador – October 29, 2017, Radio Judaïca Strasbourg (102.9 FM)Broadcast 8 …