Showing posts with label ashkenazim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ashkenazim. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

High Holy Day Music from throughout the Jewish World JNUL - Jewish National & University Library

As we start another year of studies, I invite my students and their families to check out this wonderful database of Jewish music from around the world for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur.

JNUL - Jewish National & University Library

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Hanukkah celebrations and stories from around the world

Be'chol Lashon/In Every Tongue is an organization offering educational resources and programs highlighting the diversity of Jewish customs and practices around the world. They offer here eight bits about Hanukkah as it is practiced by diverse Jewish communities: Chanukah around the World: 8 Ways to Celebrate.

Another custom is practiced in Italy and Yemen--reading a book called Megillat Antiochus.

For more resources on Hanukkah around the world:
Be'chol Lashon: Educational Resources: Holidays: Chanukah

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

HADASSAH Magazine - Jewish Traveler Archive

Every month, Hadassah Magazine has a terrific article about Jewish life in a particular country or city, remote or close at hand. The articles are terrific resources for travelers and are great resources for learning about Jews around the world but are also fun to just look at.
HADASSAH Jewish Traveler Archive

Jews around the world

Jews around the world

This website has links that describe briefly the history of Jews from countries all over the world.