Radio programs

The French-Arabic song repertoire (1st part)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. In the 1930s, a new generation of North African singers launched a new musical trend based on covers of French songs in Arabic or the creation of songs mixing Arabic and French. This trend, which lasted for more than 70 years, was later called "Chanson francarabe" …

Yiddish Glik

A radio program from French radio station Judaïques FM, hosted by Jean-Gabriel Davis, talking about the Yiddish culture Broadcasted December 16, 2015. …

Yiddish cabarets in Paris, from 1948 to 1970

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 19, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. At the end of the 19th century, several parisian cafés became places for artistic performances, theatre, and Yiddish songs. But it is often short-lived …

Jacques Chalude, also called Ben Baruch : the multiple face artist

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 29, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. For almost 50 years, Jacques Chalude, alias Ben Baruch, has enchanted thousands of listeners, in repertoires as varied as Yiddish songs, liturgy and classical music …

Dave Cash : the « crazy lad » of Yiddish cabarets

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). A radio broadcast which allow us to discver once again the music performed by Dave Cash, star of after war Yiddish cabarets …

Fuente Nueva – traditional Judeo-Moroccan songs

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This radio broadcast revives Tangier of the 1930's and its « fontaine nouvelle » district where women went to draw water singing very old songs …

The Musaf service of Yom Kippur

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.Yom Kippur, translated in English by « Day of Atonement », is one of the holiest and most important days of the Jewish year. This solemn celebration closes Yamim Noraim period, the 10 days between the Jewish new year celebration Rosh Hashanah and the end of Yom Kippour …

Serge Kaufmann – a composer in search of his roots

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 30, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Serge Kaufmann, a radio and television broadcaster and composer, set out to create a genuine Jewish work by composing pieces with evocative names: Suite Yiddish, Memorah, Matsevah, Sèlah, Yesod …

Music and musicians forbidden under the Third Reich

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 2, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.On the occasion of the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, listen to the program on so-called "degenerate" music, music qualified as such and banned under the Third Reich …

The chazan, the prayer and the synagogue’s chanting

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. As the bearer of the singing tradition of his synagogue, the chazan represents an extremely strong point of identity for the faithful …

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