Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive

The Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive was established in 2002 to provide students and scholars with:

• Web-based access to Jewish recordings that are not commercially available.
• Related, searchable information that can aid in the study of Jewish music and culture, Jewish society, and the history of Jewish recordings.

You will find here a rich array of recordings, some of them rare, dating back as far as 1904. Our database includes sound files, graphics of record labels, and details of the recordings and their contents.

Among the materials that you can browse and search are:

• Jewish humor in English / Yiddish / Hebrew
• Yiddish folk songs
• Yiddish theater
• Ladino songs
• Israeli folk songs
• Chasidic niggunim
• Cantorial performances
• Religious services
• Children's holiday stories
• Classical music by composers such as Bloch and Rossi
• Historical Recordings (e.g. relating to the creation of the State of Israel)
• Radio documentaries about Israel
• Complete Jewish radio programs

... and other material that defies classification.

The archive will be expanded as new material is available; this is an ongoing project.  If you have any suggestions or would like to contribute some material, please contact us (see the bottom of this page)

Please Note: Material available through the database may be copyrighted and should not be downloaded or reproduced (see the copyright link at the bottom of this page).

Breaking news: The Archive is undergoing substantial expansion, thanks to a major grant from the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. Dartmouth Students: if you would like to help build this archive, contact Alex Hartov by email.  Thank you.

Major expansion: We are pleased to announce that we are now working with the Library of Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, to digitize and place on-line its entire major collection of Jewish recordings.

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