04/06/2019
Gerovitch, Eliezer (1844-1914)
Born in Kitaigorod, in the province of Kiev, in Russia, in 1844, Eliezer Mordechai ben Yitschak Gerovitch received a religious education in various Yeshivoth (institutions that provided a thorough teaching …
23/05/2019
The music of the Ethiopian Jews, the Beta Israel
A historic, liturgic and musicologic analysis of the music of the Beta Israel, inspired from the works by Simha Arom, Frank Alvarez-Pereyre, Shoshana Ben-Dor and Olivier Tourny …
15/05/2019
Strom, Yale
Born in 1957 in Detroit, USA, Yale (Yitskhok) Strom is an ethnologist, fiddler, composer, writer, photograph, teacher and filmmaker. …
14/05/2019
Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)
Born in Geneva on July 24, 1880 and died on July 15, 1959 in Portland, Oregon (USA), Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer, violinist, orchestra conductor and pedagogue, whose …
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 …
