{"id":104524,"date":"2023-10-16T15:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/inventaire-des-archives-musicales-juives-italiennes\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:21:27","slug":"inventaire-des-archives-musicales-juives-italiennes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/inventaire-des-archives-musicales-juives-italiennes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventory of Italian Jewish musical archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the European Jewish Music Network program initiated by the IEMJ, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (Unione delle Comunit\u00e0 Ebraiche Italiane – UCEI<\/a><\/strong>) has launched in 2022-2023 a registry of Italian Jewish music archives.<\/p>\n

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An intial inventory had already been started, thanks to the precious contribution of Rav Enrico Elia Richetti<\/strong> (z.l.) and his son Ishai.<\/p>\n

Concerning the current inventory, UCEI has set up a simple tool to characterize and identify the documentation collected. To this end, an Excel file has been designed to achieve the following 2 aims:<\/p>\n

– Search for documents according to location,<\/p>\n

– Put together all versions of the same piece (a Lekha dodi, for example), whatever their provenance (Rome, Florence, Venice…) or medium (audio, score…).<\/p>\n

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Rav Enrico Elia Richetti <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The inventory – which was considered useful to publish in this first stage – has made it possible, as can be seen in the file accessible below, to catalog over 800 records. This initial database is such that new titles can easily be added.<\/p>\n

As a first step, documents from the Ucei Bibliographic Center<\/a>, the musicaebraicaitaliana.it<\/a> portal, from Teche Rai<\/a>, as well as the personal archives of Franco Segre<\/strong>, a great expert on the Piedmontese tradition, and the archives of Maestro Riccardo Joshua Moretti<\/strong>, who has made available the recordings of rav Elia Richetti<\/strong>, have been compiled here. We thank them both for their important contribution, which we hope will continue. One of the next steps involves the state archives, which have already been consulted and where further important documents are likely to be found.<\/p>\n

The collaboration of Professor Pasquale Tro\u00eca<\/strong>, who has been collecting material related to liturgical music for thirty years, should also be mentioned.<\/p>\n

This inventory includes archives of particular interest:<\/p>\n