Agentur TOJWE
The German Artists Agency TOJWE presents Jewish artists, musicians and events in German speaking areas of Europe.
http://www.tojwe.de/index.html

American Society for Jewish Music
ASJM is a non-profit organization for all interested in Jewish music. Members include cantors, composers, educators, musicologists, ethnologists, historians, performers and others interested in the field. Organizational memberships include libraries, universities, and synagogues. The Society presents a series of musical programs covering a wide range of Jewish music: sacred, secular, folk, concert and theater, often held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. The Society also arranges and presents lectures on Jewish music by experts in their field. The American Society for Jewish Music publishes Musica Judaica, a scholarly journal in Jewish music. A quarterly Newsletter is also distributed to members. To encourage new compositions and performances, the Society established the Cantor Aaron J. Caplow Composition Competition which awards prizes for new Jewish works and assures their performance in the Society's Annual Contemporary Composers' Concert. The website includes a calendar of musical events, a table of contents of the journal, more information about the competition, and other links of Jewish interest.
http://jewishmusic-asjm.org/

AMJ: L'Association Amis de la Musique Juive
L'Association AMJ: Les Amis de la Musique Juive --Friends of Jewish Music in Geneva, Switzerland sponsor exhibits, concerts, lectures, debates and music workshops. The organization's goals are to share the breadth and depth of Jewish music with a larger audience. Events are open to all, but members get a discount on ticket prices. The types of music sponsored include liturgical, vocal and instrumental, operetta, popular songs, Israeli, and theater music. Their website is offered in English, French and German.
http://www.club-association.ch/amj/

Cambridge Chazzanut Society: Unofficial Web Page
The Cambridge University Chazzanut Society was founded last year and was inaugurated with a concert featuring the Chazzanut Society Choir and Rev Robert Brody of Kenton.
http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~ga204/index.html

Cantor's Assembly of United Synagogue
This site includes organizational information, articles on Jewish music, a listing of recordings and related web sites. The cantor's assembly now has an online store for selling Jewish musical resources including liturgical, choral, educational and Yiddish music scores and recordings. See the catalog.
http://www.cantors.org/sys-tmpl/door/

Commission on Synagogue Music: UAHC (Union of American Hebrew Congregations)
The Commission on Synagogue Music helps coordinate programs and activities for the Reform movement's synagogue arm, including training for musicians, publication of music, festivals and events, consultation and education for accessing musical materials for congregations.
http://uahcweb.org/music

German Klezmer Page
The Klezmer-gesellschaft e.V. is a union of artistic amateurs, semiprofessional and professional musicians as well as friends and patrons of mutual cultural and artistic concerns. The klezmer-gesellschaft endeavours to take up and to support actual and traditional musical styles of different cultures. The klezmer-gesellschaft e.v. has been founded in 1990 in Berlin as a non-profit society. World famous clarinetist Giora Feidman is one of approx. 150 members. The page offers record reviews, links to webpages of musical groups, radio programs, and audio samples.
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1741/

The Guild of Temple Musicians
The Guild of Temple Musicians is an educational and networking organization for synagogue musicians, affiliated with the American Conference of Cantors. It publishes a newsletter and offers workshops for members, as well as an annual convention. The president for the 2002-2004 term (beginning 1 July 2002) is Ben Steinberg. He is the contact person at the address and phone below.

The Guild of Temple Musicians
544 St. Clements Ave.
Toronto, ONT M5N 1M4
CANADA
(416) 486-1677
bensteinberg@sympatico.ca
www.accantors.org

Hava Nashira
A Jewish songleaders page offering articles and announcements for youth group and lay songleaders. Information for leaders of youthgroup singing and other events.
http://uahcweb.org/hanashir/

Hava Nashira: Jewish Songleaders Page
Information for leaders of youthgroup singing and other events.
http://uahcweb.org/hanshir

The Israel Choral Organization
Hallel (ISCO) is a union of conductors and choirs in Israel. ICO was founded in June 1998 in order "to support and advance choral singing in Israel." It promotes workshops, seminars, gatherings, pedagogy, activities, including international activities, publishes a quarterly bulletin and supports a website. The website is very out of date in terms of concert listings, but is maintained in Hebrew and English. Nevertheless contact information in provided.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/5379/

Israel Composers League Founded 1953. The mission of The Israel Composers' League (ICL) is to "promote all kinds of contemporary concert music written in Israel, to improve the general welfare of composers living in the country, and to bring the knowledge and awareness of music written by Israeli composers to the general public." The website contains short biographical sketches of the member composers, a listing of CDs published by the society, links and events.
http://www.mitriya.com/icl/

Israel Musciological Society
Founded in 1967, IMS furthers musicological research and aids in the musical life in Israel. There are about 200 IMS members in Israel. IMS publishes Min-ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online. The IMS is supported by the Musicology Departments of the Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. Edwin Seroussi is the current President of the society.
http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/ims/

Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles
Website lists Eevents of the mission of the commission to Los Angeles, and the sponsoring the American Jewish Song Festival.
http://www.jmcla.org/

The Jewish Music Institute
"The Jewish Music Heritage Trust has become the Jewish Music Institute, a leading promoter of Jewish music in  Britain. Since its work began, in 1983, the organization has gained recognition on the concert platform, in education and in community relations. The Institute encourages musicians, composers and scholars who are today rediscovering and extending the Jewish repertoire and helping to reveal the role Jewish traditions have played in the history of music." http://www.jmi.org.uk

Music, Spirit & Scholarship: The Legacy of Eduard Birnbaum School of Sacred Music 50th Anniversary Conference
PLACE: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Brookdale Center,One West Fourth Street,New York, NY 10012-1186 DATES: Sunday, November 22, 1998-Monday, November 23, 1998 TIMES: Sunday Registration starts at 8:30am-- Concert starts at 8:00pm Monday 9:00am--8:00pm. MORE INFO: 212-674-5300 ext.444

Polish Jewish Music International Conference
The Polish Jewish Music International Conference will be held November 15-16, 1998 in Los Angeles California at the School of Music, University of Southern California. This conference, the first of its kind, attempts to fill some of the larger gaps in Polish music history by highlighting the richness of achievements of Polish composers of Jewish descent and Jewish music in Poland. It will attempt to emphasize the complexity of cultural relationships between the two ethnic groups, including both assimilation and coexistence. Discussion will center on composed music and groups of musicians (klezmer) and communities. For more information including a list of sponsors, registration information and the schedule, visit the website.
http://www.usc.edu/go/polish_music/news/events/pjconf.html

Neima
A new organization designed to be an umbrella for Jewish music organizations on college campuses. There are links sites of Jewish choirs and music groups on college campuses.
http://www.neima.org/

Nigun: Society for the promotion and exploration of Jewish music
Nigun is a society located in Duisburg, Germany dedicated to the promotion and exploration of Jewish music. The society sponsors a website, a competition of Jewish music, and information on Jewish music and synagogue poetry.
http://sti1.uni-duisburg.de/Nigun/English/

Symposium on Jewish Music, University of Edinburgh
A conference site for the Symposium on Jewish Music held at the University of Edinburgh held in October, 1996 with a listing of conference precedings. Links to past events such as the ESEM European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, held in Oxford in 1994, with full text of selected papers presented are archived online at this site. Papers of Jehoash Hirshberg and Susana Weich-Shahak of Hebrew University and are available fulltext.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/conferences/

The Workman's Circle/Arbeter Ring
"The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, dedicated to fostering Jewish identity and participation in Jewish life, among its members through Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice."  The Jewish Workmen's Circle sponsors concerts of Yiddish and other Jewish music. They also publish audio cassettes, films and videos with music in Yiddish and English.
http://www.circle.org/public/default.htm

Zamir Choral Foundation, Inc
The Zamir Choral Foundation, Inc. is the only foundation in North America dedicated to the promotion, advancement and perpetuation of the Jewish people through the music of its people, specifically Jewish choral music. Originally founded as an individual choir in 1960, the Zamir Chorale sparked a renewal of the Jewish choral movement, and the creation of several choirs with similar goals. Zamir, as a choral foundation, now provides unique leadership in the sustenance, development and advancement of the Jewish choral tradition in North America.
http://www.zamirfdn.org/