17/10/2023
Jewish Italian Music
This well-documented site provides access to hundreds of online documents (audios, scores, photos...) that testify to the rich heritage of Italian Jewish music …
13/10/2023
The Music of the Jews in Italy: A Short Introduction
The history of Jewish music in Italy is long, fascinating, and filled with contradictions. Length is due to the very history of Italian Jewry, whose origins go back more than …
12/04/2023
Foundation ILMC
Created in 2014, the ILMC Foundation aims to protect and enhance the musical heritage written in concentration camps and other places of military and civilian captivity around the world between 1933 and 1953 and collected by Francesco Lotoro …
20/01/2023
Jacintas Zingers
(Paris, France) A choir directed by Jacinta, with a mainly Yiddish song repertoire, made up of three groups of singers according to level …
19/01/2023
Jacinta
Author, composer, arranger, actress and singer, Sofia Jacinta Szlechtman was born on September 30, 1950 in Buenos Aires to a Russian-Polish Jewish family. Her maternal grandparents came to Buenos Aires …
09/01/2023
GHARAMOPHONE
This website, dedicated to the preservation of North African sound archives, presents several dozen 78 rpm records that can be listened to online …
10/12/2022
The songs of Chanukah
Discover the most important songs of Chanukah that punctuate the eight days of this Festival of Lights in the very heart of winter …
14/11/2022
Prayers to the tune of La Marseillaise!
The Jewish liturgy is full of surprises! In 1993, while I was coordinating the activities of the Yuval Association for the preservation of Jewish musical traditions, under the direction of …
13/09/2022
Rosh Hashanah Seder among North African Jews
The Rosh Hashanah Night Seder consists of the consumption of symbolic foods - known as simanim (signs) - and the recitation of prayers. This tradition dates back at least 2,000 years and was first celebrated in the communities of the Mediterranean Area …
20/07/2022
Journo, Raoul (1911-2001)
By Hervé Roten Born in Tunis in 1911 and deceased in Paris in 2001, Raoul Journo was a singer-songwriter who wrote more than 90 songs in the purest style of …
