Ethnomusicology

Comprising the organizational records of JDC, the overseas rescue, relief, and rehabilitation arm of the American Jewish community, the archives includes over 3 miles of text documents, 100,000 photographs, a research library of more than 6,000 books, 1,100 audio recordings including oral histories, and a video collection.

The Jewish Music Institute Library comprises a collection of books, sheet music, 78s, CDs, tapes and scores covering Jewish music from the middle-ages to the 21st century and spanning all genres including choral, cantorial, jazz, klezmer, Yiddish, Sephardi, Israeli and classical music.

The Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, houses over 15,000 recordings, including 78, 45, and 33 rpm discs; cylinder recordings; open-reel and cassette tapes; piano rolls; and compact discs; and other materials related to the history of recorded Jewish music.

The National Library of Israel Sound Archive comprises tens of thousands of hours of recordings of prayers, liturgical poems, religious songs and music, rituals, and folksongs, deposited, since the beginning of the last century, by researchers and others from the field of music.

The Archive engages in lectures, film research, preservation of films in danger of decay, distribution, and digitization and accessibility and serves a wide audience: film producers and directors, researchers, students, lecturers at the university, schools, cultural centers, old age homes, and the general public interested in Zionism.

Founded in 2013 at Zayed University, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Film Library and Archive is a national archive of films about the UAE and/or produced by UAE residents and corporations.