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Ashkenazi liturgical music in France

Lectures filmed on October 21, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO - Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Klezmer music in France

Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Yiddish song in France

Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Death and mourning

As at all stages of Jewish life, the end of life and the mourning that follows are accompanied by rituals combining liturgical texts, symbolic gestures and sometimes, but more rarely, music …

Religious Initiation (Bat and Bar Mitzvah)

The Bat or Bar Mitzvah marks the entry of boys and girls into religious adulthood. This religious initiation ceremony is marked by many liturgical and musical moments …

Circumcision (Brit-Milah)

On the eighth day of life, the boys' circumcision is accompanied by poetic songs celebrating their entry into the Abrahamic Covenant …

Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski (1918-2019) – The last klezmer of Galicia

This article by Polish musicologist Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka introduces us to the life and work of Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski (1918-2019), one of Galicia's last klezmer musicians …

Baqqachot

On Saturday mornings in winter, before sunrise, Jews from the Maghreb and the Middle East gather at the synagogue to sing baqqachot, a set of liturgical, sometimes mystical poems …

The wedding

The Jewish wedding is celebrated according to numerous customs and laws designed to bring out its full spiritual and material significance. In this article, we listen to the recitation of the 7 blessings in the Ashkenazi rite, taken from an historic recording made in 1933 …

Elfassy, Raphael (1939-2019)

Raphael Elfassy was born on November 4, 1939 in Rabbat, Morocco. Like many children in the Moroccan community, he developed a precise and meticulous knowledge of sacred texts. He was …

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