The Music of Sephardic Rituals.

The article focuses on the Jewish Music Institute's (JMI) newly restored archive, which preserves decades of recordings documenting Jewish diaspora life, particularly Sephardic Jewish musical traditions from North Africa and the Middle East. The archive includes rare recordings such as family Passover recitations, Moroccan cantor Samy Elmaghribi's French Seder retellings, and Ladino wedding ballads and piyyutim from Morocco. These recordings capture living ritual soundscapes integral to community and storytelling rather than static museum artifacts. Supported by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, the archive launched in May 2025 and will begin digitization in July 2026, with plans to make it accessible online.