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The great tunes of the Ashkenazi liturgical year

Watch the concert held on October 21, 2024 at the rue Copernic synagogue, at 8pm, as part of the closing session of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Michel Heymann and the Ashkenazi liturgy of the Rhine Valley

In the “Life courses” series, Michel Heymann, one of the last representatives of Ashkenazi liturgy in the Rhine Valley, recounts his 50-year career as a cantor in the Alsatian and Luxembourg communities …

Discovering baqqachot

This playlist features recordings of Baqqachot songs from the Yerushalmi and Moroccan traditions …

Shirat ha-Baqqashot according to the Moroccan rite

Ariel Danan, a skilled connoisseur of baqqashot, traces the history of this liturgical poetry and provides musical examples in the Moroccan tradition …

Adolphe Attia, 50 years of Chazanut in France

In the collection « Life courses », Adolphe Attia tells us about his life and ministry at the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire between 1961 and 2014 …

DU CÔTÉ DE CHEZ SZWARC WITH HERVÉ ROTEN

Hervé Roten, guest on Radio Shalom with Sandrine Szwarc, in her program Du Côté de chez Szwarc, passionately presents the missions and activities of the European Institute of Jewish Music. A program not to be missed! …

Darius Milhaud and his works inspired by Jewish tradition

Born into an old Jewish family from the Comtat Venaissin, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) is the author of a prolific output of some forty works inspired by Jewish tradition …

Yerushalayim shel zahav (Jerusalem of Gold)

This playlist features 12 versions of Naomi Shemer's famous song, Jerusalem of Gold (ירושלים של זהב - Yerushalayim shel zahav), in Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Spanish, English and even Finnish …

Léon Algazi (1890-1971), a Jewish music pioneer in France

In the "Life Courses" series, Jacques Algazi (1934-2021) reveals the life of his father, Léon Algazi (1890-1971), a tireless intellectual musician of Romanian origin, who contributed in particular to the diffusion of Jewish music in France …

CONCERT LES BUBBEY MAYSE – LE PETIT MATIN DU GRAND SOIR

Watch excerpts from the Bubbey Mayse concert, the opening concert of the 21st edition of the Jazz'N'Klezmer Festival, on November 9, 2023 at 8:30 pm, at Espace Rachi - Guy de Rothschild, as part of the release of their album …

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