This page contains information a couple of Jewish mailing lists with which I am involved.

Jewish-music

This list was originally started by me in 1992. I was looking to do something on this new system, "israel.nysernet.org" that my friends Avrum Goodblatt and Chaim Dworkin (z"l) had started, and I had been dreaming of a place where people would discuss "Jewish Music"--you know, klezmer and Israeli rock. Boy, was I wrong. The scope of Jewish music is much, much broader. But that's okay. I tried to catch that breadth and diversity in the short description for the list: "World music from a Jewish slant." On May 6, 2007, the list was moved from Shamash.org to the Jewish Music Web Center, and again ~2020 to groups.io. (groups.io/g/jewish-music/)

Historical note: The Jewish-music mailing list was what created, and was originally linked to the alt.music.jewishnewsgroup. The original plan was to create a hierarchy called "israel", but I objected that jewish-music could not be defined within such a limit (not all Jewish music is connected to Israel, and not all music connected to Israel is Jewish.), and that the group should be mainstreamed with the other alt.music lists where music fans would look. When the israel.nysernet.org moved and was changed to "shamash.org", the software linking news groups and mailing lists on shamash was broken. Whether this was a technical issue that never seemed important enough to resolve, or whether this was also in response to the reaction of the mailing list folks to the unregulated spam and bizarre cross-postings that came in from the newsgroup, I do not know. To the best of my knowledge, Usenet is no longer usefully extant, so this is of historical interest, only.

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