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The JMI archive is a unique and valuable research tool which documents Jewish music from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the UK and overseas as well as the activities of The Jewish Music Institute itself over the last 40 years.
We hope that the archive collection will be of value to communities, organisations and academic researchers at local, national and international levels.
The JMI archive is a unique and valuable research tool which documents Jewish music from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the UK and overseas as well as the activities of The Jewish Music Institute itself over the last 40 years.
We hope that the archive collection will be of value to communities, organisations and academic researchers at local, national and international levels.
The JMI archive is a unique and valuable research tool which documents Jewish music from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the UK and overseas as well as the activities of The Jewish Music Institute itself over the last 40 years.
We hope that the archive collection will be of value to communities, organisations and academic researchers at local, national and international levels.
The JMI archive is a unique and valuable research tool which documents Jewish music from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the UK and overseas as well as the activities of The Jewish Music Institute itself over the last 40 years.
We hope that the archive collection will be of value to communities, organisations and academic researchers at local, national and international levels.
Musicologist Dr. Amnon Shiloah captures synagogue and life-cycle melodies sung in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ladino, Kurdish, and Turkish. Includes songs for bar mitzvah and sacred ceremonies.
Recorded by Henrietta Yurchenco, this rare LP documents women’s Ladino wedding ballads and men’s devotional piyyutim from Tetuan and Tangier — a vibrant soundscape of Sephardic life in Morocco.
Moroccan cantor Samy Elmaghribi and his children recount the Passover seder in French, bringing liturgy into a family setting that bridges cultures and generations.
Recorded by Sam Eskin in a Jerusalem family home, this album features the retelling of the Passover story with Hallel (Psalms 113–118), blending Yemenite chant traditions with intimate domestic ritual.