Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians - Their History And Culture
In 2021 the European Cantors Association launched and published online the first comprehensive documented history of a nation’s chazanim (and their related professions) anywhere in the world. This extensive volume of British practitioners was meticulously researched and compiled over two decades by Dr Michael Jolles.
This Magnum Opus in its latest version (November 2024) is available to download free as Jolles' contribution to the Jewish community, to musicians and to historians.
- 📩 Email DownloadJollesEncyclopaedia@cantors.eu for your download link.
- 🖊️ To write to the editorial team of Michael Jolles, together with David Prager and Yehuda Marx suggesting additional material, amendments, photographs, discographies, references to academic sources, and links to appropriate websites, please email EditorialJollesEncyclopaedia@cantors.eu
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📺To watch the launch event on 6 October 2021, with distinguished guest speakers from around the world including Michael Jolles himself click here:
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📖 Read the review in Musica Judaica, January 2024 here:
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📖 Read the JC Review, November 2021 here:
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📖 Read what Michael Jolles himself said about the history and compilation of his major work here:
Maestro Alexander Knapp, composer and one of the leading scholars of Jewish music, known especially for his work on Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Central Asian Jewish musical traditions, says:
We can be truly grateful to Michael Jolles for making this volume available online, where it can be continually updated in the light of new information as it arises. In this way, this work will surely form a firm foundation for original research – and a source of much pleasure and enrichment – far into the future!Thank you, Michael, for sharing your passion by presenting us with this incomparable gift!