27/03/2019
Zefira, Bracha (1910-1990)
Bracha Zefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887, and settled in the then Yemenite neighborhood of Nahalat Tsvi, in Jerusalem, and married Na’ama Amrani, Bracha Zefira’s mother. …
14/03/2019
Ben Yosef, Benyamin Rafael (1870-1928)
Benyamin Rafael ben Yosef was born in 1870 in Adrianople (today Edirne), in Turkey. He comes, on his mother’s side, from a lineage of rabbis, among them Behmohar Rafael (1815-1878), …
13/02/2019
Sillamy, Jean-Claude (1932-2016)
Born on July 24, 1932, in Algiers among a family of musicians – his father Charles was director of a music school – Jean-Claude Sillamy was acquainted with all the …
31/01/2019
Naumbourg, Samuel (1817-1880)
Born on March 15, 1817 in Dennenlohe, in Bavaria, Samuel Naumbourg came from a long lineage of famous cantors. As he entered the synagogue at a very young age, he …
16/01/2019
Sulzer, Salomon (1804-1890)
Salomon Sulzer was born on March 30th, 1804 in Hohenems (Austria). His family, who bore the name Loewy (Levi) before 1813, came from Sulz (Austria), from which comes probably the …
11/01/2019
The mystical singing in Chasidic tradition – Marc-Alain Ouaknin
As part of the day of sudy Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to sacred Jewish music, Marc-Alain Ouaknin. Rabbi, philosopher and teacher in the faculty shares a reflexion about the …
19/12/2018
The hora
A dance from the pioneers, which is today emblematic of bar-mitsvas, weddings and other Jewish celebrations of the diaspora. Originally, the hora was a slow dance often practiced in Romania, by Jews and non-Jews. At the start of the 20th century, it arrived in Palestine where it was transformed into a collective and joyous circle dance, quickly becoming the emblematic dance of the first kibbutzniks. …
19/12/2018
Rock, hard-rock, metal, punk and Jewish music
At first, they look like very different musical styles, but when you look deeper, you can find several similarities which can allow fusion, and even a “transe-fusion”… …
28/11/2018
Strauss, Isaac (1806-1888)
Isaac Strauss was born as Emmanuel Israel on June 2, 1806 in Strasbourg. His father was a barber, who used to play violin on occasion of weddings, and festivals and …
