Radio programs

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 …

Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 1)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Between 1911 and 1914, the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society, founded in St. Petersburg in 1908, organized an ethnographic expedition that recorded about 500 cylinders containing nearly a thousand songs …

Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 2)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Using numerous musical examples, the second part of this program allows us to understand how today's artists use Yiddish musical archives to make their own creations …

Latkes un Fidlers

Radio show dedicated to klezmer music, Yiddish folklore and everything near to the repertoire of the Ashkenazi music, including more surprising things like electro-klezmer, experimental musoc, and Yiddish rock... Hosted by Jean-Gabriel Davis Broadcasted on May 13, 2012 …

Chanukah, voices of lights

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 16, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.Enter the celebrations of Chanukah, with the cantor and rabbi Jacques Arnold : from liturgical tunes to children's songs (spinning tops, doughnuts) and popular songs (Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish...) …

Jewish songs of the 13th century in langue d’oïl and Hebrew

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This programme revives the sound life of the Jewish communities of Northern France in the 13th century and their contacts with the poetry and music of the trouvères …

Ben Zimet – from shadow to light

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 21, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Antwerp, 1940, young Benjamin Zimet is 5 years old when the Second World War breaks out …

Azafea : a Spanish odyssey into the heart of Sefardi music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A musical odyssey into the heart of Sephardic music, with Nadav Lev (guitar), Rémy Yulzari (double bass), Frank London (trumpet) and John Hadfield (percussion) …

Music and cuisine of the Sephardi

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JULY 1, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Maurice Arrouasse, a caterer, radio host and a great expert of oriental songs, makes us discover in music the typical dishes of the Sephardic communities of the Maghreb …

Music and cuisine of the Ashkenazi

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - MAY 6, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Arielle Sion, a connoisseur of Yiddish culture, reveals the secrets of Ashkenazi gastronomy through Yiddish song …

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