Introduction
Located in Penn's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Room 453, this musical  research library, international, and multi-lingual in scope, is a collection of  approximately 5,300 Judaic sound recordings, in various formats (78, 45 and 33rpm, reel to reel and cassette tapes, compact discs, videos and DVDs).

Over thirty three hundred of these recordings have been catalogued in an easily searchable internet database displaying song titles, authors, composers, performers, first lines and other related information.

The core of the Archive is the sound recordings, catholic in scope. The three major Judaic languages, Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino are well represented as well as translations in various languages. All genres are represented Israeli, songs of the Diaspora, instrumentals (klezmer and classical), spoken word, songs of the folk, theater, holocaust, literary origin and religious songs (Chassidic, liturgical cantorial). While the sound recordings are the core of the collection, there are three satellite collections.