Based on course presentations in Professor Mark Kligman’s music classes this portion of the website introduces student to the diversity of Sephardic culture through music. The geographic distribution of Jews in Western Europe and Americans resulted in a form of music distinct from Jews in North Africa, the Levant (fertile crescent along the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean), Middle East and Yemen. Jews in each of these regions have similar practices but are expressed and nuanced by different cultures. In this presentation maps of each region provide a geographic location of each community. Musical examples include comparative cantillation examples and liturgical music To view the Introduction to Sephardic Music as a PDF, click on the PDF icon to the left. (12.4 MB) To listen to the sound files related to specific slides, click here.