10/12/2022
The songs of Chanukah
Discover the most important songs of Chanukah that punctuate the eight days of this Festival of Lights in the very heart of winter …
14/11/2022
Prayers to the tune of La Marseillaise!
The Jewish liturgy is full of surprises! In 1993, while I was coordinating the activities of the Yuval Association for the preservation of Jewish musical traditions, under the direction of …
13/09/2022
Rosh Hashanah Seder among North African Jews
The Rosh Hashanah Night Seder consists of the consumption of symbolic foods - known as simanim (signs) - and the recitation of prayers. This tradition dates back at least 2,000 years and was first celebrated in the communities of the Mediterranean Area …
17/02/2021
The Judeo-Portuguese rites in France : Bordeaux, Bayonne, Paris
Engaged in a PhD research work, Hervé Roten studied during seven years the music of the Judeo-Portuguese communities from all sides. He collected precious information, and his thesis that was defended in 1997 gives us the core of it. This work was rewarded by the Zadoc-Kahn Association Award in 1998. …
13/01/2021
Shabbat songs
The Shabbat, the day of rest, is a very important event of Jewish life. And the songs that rhythm this particular day hold a major place, at the synagogue as …
08/10/2020
Thoughts about the sung Torah
Jean-Philippe Amar studies in the University of Paris IV Sorbonne and prepares a PhD on the cantilation of the Thora the Jewish communities of Paris. The reading of the Torah, …
19/05/2020
Chasidism and music
Chasidism, the mystic Jewish movement born in Eastern Europe in the middle of the 18th century, enabled the emergence of a lot of music aimed to transcend the impurities of this world …
02/04/2020
Three Passover songs: Adir hu, Echad mi yodea and Chad gadya
Learn everything about the three songs that end the Passover seder : Adir hu, Echad mi yodea and Chad gadya …
02/04/2020
Passover
Passover (Pessah) - פֶּסַח - is one of the three pilgrimage festivals of the Jewish calendar (with Shavuot and Sukkot), in which we commemorate the Hebrews who got out of Egypt. …
11/01/2017
Baroque Jewish Music
Unlike various popular beliefs, Jews from Italy, Provence or even Amsterdam had a perfect knowledge concerning Art Music in the Christian world. Young Italian Jews in the 15th century went …
