18/11/2025
S & P Central
A rich, multilingual website listing the locations, practices, and traditions of the main communities of Spanish and Portuguese Jews around the world …
30/10/2025
Piyyut and contemporary Israeli song
Piyyut refers to religious poetry, often sung today in liturgical or paraliturgical settings. This article explores the influence of piyyutim on contemporary Israeli song …
19/08/2025
Zemereshet
(Israel, Hebrew website) Website dedicated to preserving and disseminating the repertoire of Hebrew songs from the beginnings of Zionism to the creation of the State of Israel …
06/06/2025
Deutsch de la Meurthe, Henry (1846-1919)
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe was a great philanthropist, putting his fortune at the service of his two passions: aeronautics and music …
02/06/2025
Camondo, Isaac de (1850-1911)
Born into an illustrious Italian family of Constantinople bankers who had settled in Paris in 1867, Isaac de Camondo was an art collector, patron and composer …
28/05/2025
Halphen, Georges (1913-2003)
Son of Fernand Halphen (1872-1917) and Alice de Koenigswarter (1878-1963), Georges Halphen was a passionate art collector, fully involved in public life …
18/05/2025
Ashkenazi liturgical music in France
Lectures filmed on October 21, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO - Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations …
18/05/2025
Klezmer music in France
Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations …
15/05/2025
Yiddish song in France
Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations …
08/05/2025
Death and mourning
As at all stages of Jewish life, the end of life and the mourning that follows are accompanied by rituals combining liturgical texts, symbolic gestures and sometimes, but more rarely, music …
