Music

Collection of Audio Recordings

The audio recordings collection contains approximately 1,500 recordings of interviews with various personalities in the Babylonian community on many topics: the Jewish communities in the cities of Iraq, The Zionist Movement, Operation Ezra and Nehemia, religious life, folklore, beliefs and amulets, idioms and more.

A secondary collection is composed of cantorial recordings collection, containing approximately 90 recordings of piyutim, shbahot, and Torah readings according to the tradition of Babylonian Jewry.

The Center also has a collection of approximately 400 records of the best folk melodies of Baghdad, and songs by Jewish singers of Iraqi descent.

For more information, please contact: The Department of Information and Communications Technology, 03-5339278 ext. 6 / 2 or ict@bjhc.org.il.