21/12/2015
Thadé, une longue histoire d’amour…
Biography of Thadé, Jewish violonist native of Poland …
21/12/2015
Klezmer’s Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany
Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish Disneyland" and even "cultural necrophilia." …
14/12/2015
Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe
The first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), pianist, conductor and composer …
14/12/2015
La fanfare de Bangui
It starts like an adventure's novel : a phone call from the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs offers, in 1963, to a horn player from the radio's symphonic orchestra, to leave for the Central African republic, as part of a cooperation program : the president of Central Africa wants a brass band …
26/11/2015
Wagner antisemite
Can the greatness of one of the most remarkable musicians of the Western world excuse some positions among the worse that can be ? And moreover : can it justify that we ignore them ? …
03/08/2015
Notre langue d’intérieur
This small book features a collection of autobiographic texts, funny and moving, from the singer Talila, with photographs by Franck Juery …
03/08/2015
American Klezmer – Its Roots and Offshoots
This collective work, edited by Mark Slobin, focuses on "American Klezmer - its roots and ramifications". Contributors include Michael Alpert, Walter Z. Feldman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Henry Sapoznik, Frank London or the violinist and composer Alicia Svigals …
03/08/2015
Voices of a People – The Story of Yiddish Folksong
An accessible and documented work, Voices of a People by Ruth Rubin is today the most important book available on Yiddish songs …
03/08/2015
Old Jewish Folk Music – The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
This book of reference features the writings and the works from the collecting of Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes done by the ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) in Soviet Union …
29/07/2015
Encounters of East and West in Music – Selected Writings
This book by the Israeli musicologist Hanoch Avenary studies several fundamental subjects, such as the music instruments of the Bible, the concept of modality in Jewish music, the parallels between synagogue and church music, and Jewish folklore …
