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The Kamti Lehallel double-CD album introduces the musical tradition of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities of Amsterdam, London and New York. CD Catalog
A Harpsichord at Beth Hatefutsoth
In memory of her father, Lazer Levy, Ms. Galit Levy of Haifa presented the FJMC, on a permanent loan, the harpsichord he built himself. The instrument will be used at performances and recordings held at Beth Hatefutsoth.
A Donation by Shimshon Gitelman
Shimshon Gitelman (born 1918) donated to the Feher Jewish Music Center of Beth Hatefutsoth recordings he made recently of more than eighty songs sung by himself.
Born in David Gorodok, a small town in Poland (now in Belarus), he studied at the Tarbut School, where teaching was conducted in the Hebrew language. At home Yiddish and Russian were spoken. In 1937 he went to Kibbutz Hachshara in Grodna, to prepare for his future in Eretz Israel. Two years later he was granted an immigration permit to Mandatory Palestine. He went home to prepare for his departure, planed for September 5, 1939, but on September 1, 1939 World War II broke out. He fled to Vilna and then to Russia. In 1944, with the liberation of Belarus by the Soviet Army, he returned to David-Gorodok and discovered that all the Jews of the town had perished, including his own family. He went to Poland where he was active in the framework of the “Berikha” operation. Later he ran a Jewish refugee center in Genoa, Italy. On February 1949 he came to Israel. He first settled in Kibbutz Eylon and in 1951 moved to Ramat Gan where he currently lives.
Gitelman dedicated the recordings to the memory of his parents, sisters and brothers, and to all the Jews of David-Gorodok. To hear one of the recordings, a folk song called VOS VET BLAYBN TsU DERMANEN (What remains in memory) click here
Ruth Rubin’s Recordings at Beth Hatefutsoth
Recordings made by the internationally acclaimed singer and ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin (1906-2000) in the 1950’s and 1960’s in North America were given to the FJMC by the Haifa AMLI Music Library. According to the agreement between Beth Hatefutsoth and the Municipality of Haifa, the recordings - on more than 200 magnetic tapes - are currently being digitized and their sound enhanced. The recorded Yiddish and Eretz Israel songs are performed by numerous amateur singers and by Ruth Rubin herself
New CD -MOKUM – JERUSALEM OF THE WEST
The Musical Tradition of the Ashkenazi Community of Amsterdam
This double CD co-produced by the Feher Jewish Music Center in cooperation with the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam features historical recordings done in the years prior to World War II. More Info
Cooperation Agreement with FAU Judaica Music Rescue Project
The Feher Jewish Music Center and the Florida Atlantic University's Judaica Music Rescue Project have signed a cooperation agreement. Within the framework of this agreement, the Project will transfer to the Center, a copy of all records at their disposal (of which JMRP has at least three copies). Modern technology will allow both parties to operate computer workstations, giving the user access to pool of information and recordings which are available to the other. As a result of this cooperation. the collection of the Feher Jewish Music Center will expand considerably within a short space of time.
Recordings of Hazzan Gershon Margolies and Composer Aryeh Abrahamson
The FJMC has received a donation of previously unreleased 78 rpm records of Hazzan Gershon Margolies, Chief Cantor at the Leopoldstadtgasse Synagogue in Vienna until 1938. The gift was presented by his second cousin, Hannah Abrahamson, who also presented the Center with recordings of art songs to Hebrew and Yiddish texts, composed by her father, Aryeh Abrahamson. After digitization of the recordings they will be made available to visitors to the Center.
