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Holocaust Songs of the Greek Jews

This book presents for the first time 16 songs written or performed by Greek Jews during or after the Holocaust …

Arnold Schoenberg, un musicien juif dans le monde

In the book Musiques, mondialisation et sociétés, published in 2024 by the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, the sociologist Myriam Odile Blin examines the life and work of Schoenberg, the father of dodecaphony, and his relationship to Judaism …

Histoires de voix hébraïques

Following his first book, Voix hébraïques - Voyage dans la musique juive d'Occident, published in 2020, Hector Sabo offers in this short work a new, more synthetic and accessible approach to Hebrew music. …

Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians: Their History and Culture

Remarkably well-documented, this thousand-page encyclopedia presents the history of the British synagogal music …

Musique et musiciens de bal – Isaac Strauss au service de Napoléon III

This book by Laure Schnapper, a musicologist specializing in music in France in the 19th century, allows us to discover the personality and work of Isaac Strauss, a composer of Alsatian Jewish origin who made the great people of this word dance and contributed to the growth and prestige of France under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III …

Recording History

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization …

Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874)

In his thesis, now available in digital version, Gérard Ganvert gives us an indepth study of synagogal music in Paris from 1822 to 1874 …

Canti del Tempio Maggiore di Roma

This two-volume study by Pasquale Troìa, with contributions by Alberto Funaro, Claudio Di Segni and Angelo Spizzichino, presents for the first time the musical manuscripts of the Historical Archives of the Jewish Community of Rome …

Rose en Ciel

Book-CD. Poetic and musical tale, created by Mirélè Rozen. Alternating stories and traditional songs, mainly in Yiddish, presented with their phonetic transcription …

Dorothée – A bikhele Lider

A tribute to Dorothée Vienney, a Yiddish teacher who passed away on February 23, 2021 at the age of 86, this bikhele lider (small singing book) by Isabelle Georges is a jewel by its simplicity, intimacy and beauty …

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