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Australian Archive of Jewish Music

(Melbourne, Australia) - Musical archives situated in the Monash university, with a special focus on Jewish music from Asia and Oceania. No online catalog but some music available online …

Academy for Jewish Religion

(New-York, USA) Institute dedicated to the training of rabbis and cantors. Archive catalogue online …

Lovy, Israël (1773-1832)

Born into a lineage of cantors from Poland and Pomerania, Israël Lovy was born August 31, 1773 in Schottland, near Dantzig …

Kol Nidre

Watch the lectures by Delphine Horvilleur and Hervé Roten about the meaning of the Kol Nidre prayer and its music, as well as an excerpt of the concert, performed on …

Haza, Ofra (1957-2000)

Ofra Haza עפרה חזה, (Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza), born on November 19, 1957 in Tel-Aviv and deceased on February 23, 2000 in Ramat Gan, was an Israeli actress and singer native …

Discovering Jewish Music

A filmed lecture, in the Medem Center, on December 7, 2016. Introduction to Jewish music, by the ethnomusicologist Hervé Roten …

Lecture “French songs, Jewish songs, a creative interference”

A filmed lecture hosted by Hervé Roten, as part of the 1st edition of “Campus en Musique” organized by the Medem Center Arbeter Ring …

Yiddish music in Parisian cabarets after WWII

A filmed conference, presented by Hervé Roten and David Winter, as part of the first edition of "Campus en musique" organized by the Medem-Arbeter Ring …

Potock, Bernard

We know very little about Bernard Potock. Beginning in 1938, he played the trumpet in Stanislaw Laudan’s jazz orchestra “Banda” in Krakow, Poland.He spent the Second World War in the …

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