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 …
30/10/2018
Delmin, Dany (1931 ?)
Dany Delmin is a composer, performer and songwriter in French, Hebrew and Yiddish. Born David Polack, he was the youngest in a family of 7 children. When the war broke out, …
