01/06/2015
Singing the woman – Yiddish songs Workshop
Watch excerpts of this workshop, with many yiddish songs and melodies from the women's repertoires …
02/02/2015
Halphen, Fernand (1872-1917)
Born in 1872, Fernand Halphen was killed on duty fighting for France in 1917. He was captain of the 13th territorial regiment of infantry and music chief. He entered the …
02/02/2015
Halphen, Alice (1878-1963)
Born in 1878, Alice Halphen, born Koenigswarter, died in 1963. Officer of the French Legion of Honour, she was a member for many years of the Committee of the Israelite …
11/12/2014
Barry Sisters
(From left to right: Claire and Myrna Barry) Myrna and Clara were born in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Herman and Ester, respectively from Russia and Austria, …
11/12/2014
Alman, Samuel (1877-1947)
Samuel Alman was born in Sobolevka (Russia), in 1877. The sixth child of a family of 14 children, his father was a talmudist and musician, and his mother an amateur …
06/11/2014
Kandel, Harry (1885-1943)
Harry Kandel was one of the pioneers of klezmer, the traditional dance music of the European Jews, in the United States. Together with his orchestra, which featured two cornets, four …
23/10/2014
Zadoc-Kahn, Geneviève (1914-2001)
Geneviève Zadoc-Kahn was the grand daughter of the rabbi Zadoc Kahn and one of the great grand daughters of rabbi Salomon Ulmann. Her childhood wasn’t spared from difficult events : …
07/10/2014
Rossi, Salomone (Near 1570-Near 1630)
Salomone Rossi, or Shlomo Mi-ha-Adumim in Hebrew, came from an old Jewish family in Mantua, where he was born around 1570. Profiting from the tolerance granted to the Jews by …
07/10/2014
Frankel, Joseph (Lt) (1885-1953)
Joseph Frankel was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine). A Kiev Conservatory trained bandmaster and a band leader in the Tzarist army, he toured the US in 1904 leading the …
