Jewish Music

Online resources for Passover recordings, lyrics, sheet music and more.

Hanukkah songs are sung in an important and joyous part of the candle lighting ceremony each night.

The unlikely history of a Hasidic melody.

Jews have wandered the world over, and sometimes all that wandering gets packed into one song.

The category of secular Jewish music is as elusive as it is important. It may be broadly defined as any music used primarily by Jews in non-liturgical contexts, and also includes Sephardic and Ashkenazic music.

Learning to appreciate hazzanut (cantorial music)

In Hebrew, English and Yiddish, this legendary Israeli singer has created an unparalleled body of music.

Jews had a hand in writing nearly all the great musicals of the 1930s and '40s.

The Jewish contribution to the development of rock music

Bob Dylan's lyrics never explicitly invoke his Jewish roots, but Jewish influences are never far from the surface.