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Welcome to David Kohan’s Jewish Music Archive Wiki!
Here you can listen to more than 600 hours of Jewish music collected by the hazzan (cantor) and musicologist David Kohan.
The accumulation of musical material took place from 1945 until about 1990. David Kohan had 325 tapes (reels and cassettes) stored in Berlin. Anne Böhme digitized them at the Department of the History of the Jewish Religion headed by Prof. Dr. Karl E. Grözinger at Potsdam University during [2001/2-06?]. Now there are more than 12.000 tracks in David Kohan's Jewish Music Archive Wiki.
Here you see an example of the structure of the articles for the tracks.
The overall structure of the database still lacks a lot. So far, only two ways of structuring have been started.
Firstly, the recordings are arranged according to the CD's that resulted from the digitizing process. Actually, this structure is not too helpful, as these CD's do not match albums. Rather, they are mosaic stones patched together of different sources and performers.
Secondly, a structure based on the workload still necessary has been created which is called "Page status".
More structuring is very much welcome.
Take notice that every page has a "discussion" button at the top - please feel absolutely free to use this feature! You do not always have to change the page right away; in case you are unsure about the information you would like to add or in case a problem arises - use the discussion button. It is a great possibility if doubtful or arguable data has to be reconsidered. Of course, this only works if other knowledgable people respond to it...
In addition, do not hesitate to correct the currently non native speaker English of the Kohan Wiki. - This is only a beginning now.
Read more about David Kohan and his archive.
Die Form des Wikis wurde gewählt, um den wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu den fehlenden Metadaten, die diese wichtigen Zeugnisse der jüdischen Musikgeschichte beschreiben könnten, zu begründen. Die Schaffung eines lebenden Archivs, dessen Erschliessung sich durch die Erkenntnisse von Musikwissenschaftlern aus aller Welt ständig fortsetzt und vervollständigt, könnte im Zeitalter von Web 2.0 einen Beitrag zu neuen interaktiven Formen der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgewinnung leisten.
