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The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) serves as a broad canopy for all who are interested in Jewish music. Its members include cantors, composers, educators, musicologists, ethnologists, historians, performers and interested lay people, as well as libraries, universities, synagogues and other institutions. The Society sponsors a number of important programs and projects which provide greater access to Jewish music. In addition, the Society produces concerts, conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes at which scholars, students and others may benefit from the musical expertise of the Society's members.

ASJM's current projects include:
· Live concerts of historical and contemporary Jewish music.
· Building the database of Musica Judaica for online review.
· Digitizing of the St. Petersburg Score Collection, a late Russian 
   Empire collection of Jewish-music scores.
· Building a database of Jewish music scholars and researchers.
· Digitization and building the most sophisticated searchable database for the Society's
   Charlie Bernhaut Collection of 17,000 of Jewish Music recordings from the earliest
   wax cylinders and vinyl records to the latest CDs.
· Video recordings of Jewish Music Forum seminars for streaming online.
· ASJM Matters, a periodic newsletter distributed online.
· The Aaron J. Caplow Competition to stimulate the composition of new Jewish music.

             
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