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What Are We Up To? Week of 6/27/21

We’re currently working on Morocco (1/300) and will complete it by the end of July, 2021 We may complete select songs from NusachDB We have completed the following regions Algeria (piyut.co.il; JMRC) Balkans (Idelsohn; JMRC) Bene Israel (piyut.co.il) Bukhara (Idelsohn; piyut.co.il) Dagestan (Idelsohn) Halab (Idelsohn; piyut.co.il) Iraq (Idelsohn; piyut.co.il; JMRC) Kurdistan (Idelsohn; piyut.co.il; JMRC) Libya…

What Are We Up To? Week of 6/20/21

We’re currently working on Morocco (1/300) and the following piyut.co.il regions Iraq Yemen Turkey Balkans Persia JMRC Judeo-Arabic songs We’re revising our Hebrew key and transliterations overall We’ve finished Algeria (piyut.co.il) Balkans (Idelsohn) Bene Israel (piyut.co.il) Bukhara (Idelsohn and piyut.co.il) Dagestan (Idelsohn) Halab (Idelsohn and piyut.co.il) Iraq (Idelsohn) Kurdistan (Idelsohn and piyut.co.il) Libya (piyut.co.il) Morocco…

What Are We Up To? Week of 6/13/21

We’re currently working on Morocco (1/300) and the following piyut.co.il regions Algeria – 0/5 Libya – 0/6 Iraq – 0/9 Yerushalmi – 0/16 We’re revising our Hebrew key and transliterations overall We’ve finished Kurdistan (Idelsohn and piyut.co.il)/Iraq (Idelsohn); Bene Israel (piyut.co.il); Bukhara/Dagestan/Persia (Idelsohn and piyut.co.il); Eastern Sefaradim/Turkey/Syria/Balkans (Idelsohn); Yemen (Idelsohn); Morocco (piyut.co.il) and misc. from…

What Are We Up To? Week of 6/6/21

We’re currently working on Morocco (1/300) and the following piyut.co.il regions Bukhara – 0/2 Morocco – 0/16 Algeria – 0/5 Libya – 0/6 Iraq – 0/9 Yerushalmi – 0/16 We’re revising our Hebrew key and transliterations overall We’ve finished Kurdistan (Idelsohn and piyut.co.il)/Iraq (Idelsohn); Bene Israel (piyut.co.il); Bukhara/Dagestan/Persia (Idelsohn); Eastern Sefaradim/Turkey/Syria/Balkans (Idelsohn); Yemen (Idelsohn); and…

What Are We Up To? Week of 5/30/21

We’ve finished Anatolia/Syria/Balkans; Persia/Bukhara/Dagestan; Kurdistan/Iraq; and Yemen We’re currently working on Morocco (1/300) We’re revising our Hebrew key and transliterations overall, switching from ey and ay to ei and ai We’re revising our Hebrew transliterations vis-a-vis Persian and Bukharian communities After we finish Idelsohn’s thesaurus, we plan to move on to transliterating, transcribing, and cataloguing…

What Are We Up To? Week of 12/20/20

We’ve finished Anatolia/Syria/Balkans; Persia/Bukhara/Dagestan; and Yemen We’re currently working on Kurdistan/Iraq (126/194) and Morocco (1/300) We’re revising our Hebrew key and transliterations overall, switching from ey and ay to ei and ai We’re revising our Hebrew transliterations vis-a-vis Persian and Bukharian communities After we finish Idelsohn’s thesaurus, we plan to move on to transliterating, transcribing,…

What Are We Up To? Week of October 11th

We’ve finished Anatolia/Syria/Balkans; Persia/Bukhara/Dagestan; and Yemen We’re currently working on Kurdistan/Iraq (114/194) and Morocco (1/300) We’re revising our Hebrew key and transliterations vis-a-vis Persian and Bukharian communities After we finish Idelsohn’s thesaurus, we plan to move on to transliterating, transcribing, and cataloguing files from piyut.co.il so that non-Hebrew speakers and readers can find music Elsewhere,…

Persian Hebrew

We’ve been asking for input from hobbyist and professional linguists about Idelsohn’s inclusion of ‘thav’ for Tav without dagesh in Persian Hebrew. We are critiquing and improving Idelsohn’s work, and will be looking back through our Persian music and removing this interdental fricative. Thank you to everyone who gave us this feedback!

What Are We Up To? Week of October 4th

We’ve finished Persia; Turkey; Syria; the Balkans; Dagestan; and Bukhara We’re currently working on Iraq (111/194), Kurdistan (1/29), Yemen (174/203) We haven’t yet started Morocco After we finish Idelsohn’s thesaurus, we plan to move on to transliterating, transcribing, and cataloguing files from piyut.co.il so that non-Hebrew speakers and readers can find music Elsewhere, we have…

What Are We Up To? Week of Sept. 20th

We’ve finished Persia; Turkey; Syria; the Balkans; Dagestan; and Bukhara We’re currently working on Iraq (84/194), Kurdistan (1/29), Yemen (170/203) We haven’t yet started Morocco After we finish Idelsohn’s thesaurus, we plan to move on to transliterating, transcribing, and cataloguing files from piyut.co.il so that non-Hebrew speakers and readers can find music Elsewhere, we have…

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