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Poyln – A gilgul

This CD, constituted in chapters inspired by the various stages of the Metamorphosis of a melody, the famous book by I. L. Peretz, features an obscure field of klezmer music repertoire …

Standing on the shoulders of Sholem Aleichem

During a trip through Europe between September 2013 and February 2013, Jean-Gabriel Davis met young people involved in the renewal of Yiddish culture in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Romania. …

Chekhov’s Band – Eastern European Klezmer music from the EMI archives 1908-1913

Coming with a tremendously rich booklet, a true historical and ethnomusicological essay, this CD released in September 2015 features archive recordings, unpublished until now, and absolutely breathtaking …

Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel’s Lemberg Yiddish Theater, 1906-1910

Gimpel’s Yiddish theater of Lemberg was the first permanent Yiddish theater in Europe. Several 78 RPM discs of songs from this theater were recorded between 1906 and 1910. This CD, produced by Julian Futter and Michael Aylward, restored it for our pleasure …

Shir Hodu – Jewish Songs from Bombay of the ’30s

“Shir Hodu” means in Hebrew “Song of India”. It also means “Song of praise”. This anthology features for the first time on a CD the most famous Indian singers from Bombay, in a historical performance of the 1930’s …

Waks – Yiddish Voices

Drawing from sounds recorded on wax cylinders between 1928 and 1941 by Sofia Magid and Moishe Beregovsky, the musicians Inge Mandos (vocals), Klemens Kaatz (piano, accordion, harmonium) and Hans-Christian Jaenicke (violin) start a dialogue defying time with voices from the past …

Oyfn veg / En chemin – Popular Yiddish songs

Oyfn Veg/En chemin is a compilation of Yiddish songs, with also a few Judeo-Spanish, Hebrew and French songs, harmonized by Jean Golgevit …

Leibu Levin – Word and melody – Yiddish Poetry Set to Music

Leibu Levin (1914, Czernowitz - 1983, Hertzliya) was an actor, singer and composer. A great part of his work was written in Yiddish …

Tshiriboym – Nouveaux chants yiddish

Tshiriboym gathers 48 songs written by Jacques Grober (1951-2006), author, composer and singer, since the 1980’s, and 9 nigunim, melodies inspired from the Chasidic tradition …

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 …

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