26/06/2019
Jewish music and cuisine
An audiovisual conference hosted by Hervé Roten about songs speaking of the culinary specialties from Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Oriental and Israeli traditions …
18/06/2019
Ozeri, Ahuva (1948-2016)
An Israeli singer, author, composer and performer, Ahuva Ozeri released 20 albums during the four decades of her career. According to the Times of Israel, she was "a pioneer of Israeli music". …
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), …
