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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 …

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 …

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 …

GHARAMOPHONE

This website, dedicated to the preservation of North African sound archives, presents several dozen 78 rpm records that can be listened to online …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Jewish Music in Spain

Article about the historical situation of Jewish Music in Spain, by Jorge Rozemblum, director of Radio Sefarad and Spanish correspondent of the European network of Jewish music …

Meïmoun, François (1979)

Born in 1979, François Meïmoun studied at the Conservatory of Paris (CNSMDP) with Michaël Levinas, at the Sorbonne-Paris IV University and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes where he finished …

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