25/05/2016
Adler, Israel (1925-2009)
Israel Adler died on August 17, 2009 after a prolonged illness. At this early stage, while we stand for his shloshim (end of the first month of mourning), a full …
24/05/2016
Arom, Simha (1930)
Simha Arom is a world known musician and ethnomusicologist, specialized in traditional music, especially from Central Africa. He also collected music by Jews from Ethiopia, when they arrived in Israel …
18/05/2016
Kirch, Albert (1918-2016)
Deceased on April 18, 2016 at the age of 98 years old, Albert Kirch was for more than 30 years the cantor of the Jewish community of Metz. This article …
11/05/2016
Gorby, Sarah (around 1900-1980)
Sarah Gorby (her real name was Gorbevitsh) was born around the turn of the century in Kishinev, which then belonged to Tsarist Russia. She was the descendant of a mainly …
20/04/2016
Music in Israel
Article written by Michèle Tauber, teacher of modern Hebrew, modern and contemporary literature in University Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle …
29/03/2016
Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau on March 2, 1900. He was the third of four children of Emma Ackermann and Albert Weill, cantor in the synagogue of Dessau …
10/02/2016
The importance of singing in the Jewish tradition – Hervé Roten
As part of the day of study Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to sacred Jewish music, Hervé Roten an ethnomusicologist and the director of the European Institute of Jewish Music presents …
10/02/2016
Rosenblatt, Yossele (1882-1933)
Josef Rosenblatt was born on May 9, 1882 in Bila Tserkva, in Ukraine. He came from a great dynasty of cantors. Considered a child prodigy, he started his career as …
17/12/2015
The voice in the Ashkenazi liturgical tradition – Hector Sabo
As part of the Day of study Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to Jewish sacred music, Hector Sabo offers us a lecture on the voice in the Ashkenazi liturgical tradition …
14/12/2015
Chalude, Jacques, aka Ben Baruch (1914-1997)
Yitzhak Zaludkowski was born on September 20, 1914 in the city of Stawiszyn (Kalisz County, Poland) to a religious family. His father, as well as his uncle, were both cantors, …
