Category: Digital Access & Online Collections

Living in America

By , June 28, 2012 10:36 am
Album cover of compilation CD of Living in America

Now you can celebrate the 4th of July and your Jewish heritage at the same time.

This new compilation of songs from the Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries in Boca Raton, FL is about the American Jewish experience.

It contains  Yiddish songs recorded during the early 20th century and expresses a Jewish immigrant perspective on New York, Coney Island and other things distinctly American. Read More About This…

Celebrate klezmer!

By , February 27, 2012 9:41 am
Image of Klezmer musician with words Klezmer

4th Annual KULTUR FESTIVAL: A Celebration of Jewish Music and Arts

March 3—11, 2012

FAU Libraries, Boca Raton, FL

Can’t make it to South Florida? Read More About This…

JSA Featured Performer – Laura Wetzler

By , January 18, 2012 3:03 pm
Photo of Laura Wetzler with guitar
Photo of Laura Wetzler with guitar

The multi-talented Laura Wetzler is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, lecturer, and recording artist. Her professional singing career began when she was only 15 years old.  Influenced  by her love of Jewish music and the famous folk singers of the 1960s, she became a popular performer at NYC clubs, synagogues and college campuses.

After her graduation from Hofstra she became a protégé of the legendary Joe Elias, master of the Ladino folk song genre. Her first CD was released to critical acclaim in 1999 and was re-issued in 2011. Read More About This…

Kol Nidre gets a Carribean beat

By , October 6, 2011 9:20 am
Album Cover of Kol Nidre Goes East
Album Cover of Kol Nidre Goes East

Sometimes the unexpected comes with the daily mail. This recent addition arrived just in time for Yom Kippur. It  features Nicolas Jolliet a talented guitarist, sitarist,  and composer.

The Kol Nidre has fascinated composers for centuries. Now it has caught the attention of Guitarist and Sitarist Nicolas Jolliet. Using the sitar, surbahar, tabla, oud, dumbek and other exotic instruments, this CD was recorded on the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia, and evolves from traditional ragas into a seductive Reggae beat. The subject of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, it was played at a Yom Kippur service held at a U.S. base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Read More About This…

L’Shana Tova: A good and sweet year

By , September 19, 2011 4:05 pm

New for the Holidays! This recently added album features music composed especially for the High Holy Days by Cantor Meir Finkelstein who also conducts the orchestra. It features the voices of Cantor Udi Spielman and his wife Varda.

Photo of album cover A Still, Small Voice Is Heard by Udi Spielman
Photo of album cover A Still, Small Voice Is Heard by Udi Spielman

Cantor Spielman and Cantor Finkelstein have partnered many times in the past with great success. Together they create a distinctive cantorial sound that is at once modern and traditional. Read More About This…

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