Prologue: before Jewish music -- Places of Jewish music. The Jewish village: music at the border of myth and history ; The people without music history: rediscovering Jewish music in the Mediterranean ; East and West -- Ontologies of Jewish music. Inventing Jewish music ; Self-reflecting-self: Jewish music collecting in the mirror of modernity ; Paths toward Utopia -- Beyond Jewish music. Parables of the metropole ; Jewishness in music: mirrors of selfness in Jewish music ; Staging Jewish music -- Epilogue: after Jewish music.