The end of World War Two and the Holocaust lead to the large-scale outward migration of European Jews across the globe. While this human emigration has been well documented by historians and social scientists, less is known about the accompanying migration of musical notation, texts and knowledge that accompanied this mass movement of Jewish refugees. Further, the transmission of music out of Europe at this time, can be employed to retrace and add new insights to the human migration that accompanied it. Once Jewish Holocaust survivors settled into their new immigration host societies, their music also adopted a constitutive role in building nascent communities of migrants as well as looking back to the homelands left behind. Drawing upon an array of current primary research on the topic of Jews and music, this panel presents original primary and archival material that stems from the Holocaust, the immediate post-War period and music performed and created en route to new immigration countries, and explores this material through musical, ethnographic, political and historical angles. These papers hold contemporary resonance for modern-day migratory patterns and enduring questions about humanitarian exile and belonging.