[HANASHIR:8770] [Fwd: Passover songs on Internet]

[jill <msjill...>]

Thought that you might find below info valuable.   Lets all pray that we
have a more peaceful year here in Jerusalem!   Jill

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Subject: Passover songs on Internet
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:34:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Jerry Barach <msbarach (at) mscc(dot)huji(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: friends: ;





          PASSOVER SONG IN VARIED JEWISH TRADITIONS HEARD   
          ON HEBREW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY INTERNET SITE 

        Jerusalem, April 4, 2001 - Just in time for the Passover holiday,
the Jewish National and University Library of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem is offering Internet users a sampling of several ethnic
versions
of the popular Passover song, "Echad Mi Yodea" ("Who Knows One"), in a
digitized audio (MP3) format. To hear the selections, go to
http://jnul.huji.ac.il.
        In short segments, the song can be heard as sung in various
dialects and languages in the Turkish, Spanish, Greek, Yemenite,
Chassidic
and other traditions. The segments are from the extensive recorded
collection of Jewish ethnic music in the National Sound Archives at the
Jewish National and University Library. The Archives has preserved more
than 7,000 hours of recorded music to date.  
        This Passover "treat" from the library is part of the ongoing
David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, which is intended to
make the library's collections more accessible to the public worldwide.
        Also viewable on the library site, as part of the digitization
project, are examples from the Jewish National and University Library's
large collection of traditional Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot). 
        
____ 
For further information: Jerry Barach, Dept. of Media Relations,
02-5882904.


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