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Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann

Fourth opus from the serie Music in Exile, the CD Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann, released by Chandos on August 28, 2020 makes us discover the unfairly forgotten work of a Jewish Czech composer who fled Nazism in 1934 …

Hebrew Voices: A journey into Western Jewish music, with analysis and musical examples (in French)

This book takes us on a chronological circuit through 30 works of Jewish music, from the Middle Ages up to today, from Obadiah the Proselyte to Arnold Schoenberg or Michaël Levinas …

Alberto Hemsi : Coplas Sefardies

Soprano Tehila Nini Goldstein and pianist Jascha Nemtsov perform the complete 60 Coplas Sefardies (Judeo-Spanish Songs) by Alberto Hemsi in this 3-CD set released by Hänsser Classic on September 30, 2020 …

En allant à Uskudar

The first album of Les Oreilles d’Aman, En allant à Uskudar (Going to Uskudar) explores the interbreedings of Jewish music, Turkish and Balkan melodies, with Klezmer and Gypsy tunes, passing by jazz, Occitan or classical music …

Josef Josef

The first album of the band Josef Josef, released by the Buda Musique label, is composed of Yiddish, Gypsy, and Russian songs …

Oyfn Veg (en chemin)

An album featuring popular Yiddish songs, harmonized for choir and conducted by Jean Golgevit …

Yiddish Glory

Released in 2018 in USA by Six Degrees Records, the CD Yiddish Glory features 18 Yiddish songs, written by Jews from Soviet Union. Songs that we had thought lost forever …

Yahudice

CD of Judeo-Spanish songs from Istanbul, Izmir, Thessalonica and Jerusalem. Booklet in English, Turkish, Judeo-Spanish and Hebrew, published in 2003 by KALAN editions, Istanbul …

Mes joyeux compagnons

Since 2010, the band Kalarash has explored klezmer music and music from the Balkans (Romania and Greece) with their string instruments, violin, double bass, tsimbl, and polyglot vocals. …

The Jews in Maghreb through their singers and musicians in the 19th and 20th century

Specialist of Iranian Jewish culture, Alain Chaoulli presents in his book a wide panorama of Judeo-Arab-Andalusian music of the three countries from the Maghreb, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia …

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In March 2026, Roza Litay, daughter of singer Nehama Lifshitz (1927–2017), donated a collection of autobiographical materials (photos, archives, etc.)…

Lifshitz, Nehama (1927-2017)

Born in Lithuania, Nehama Lifshitz was a renowned Yiddish singer

Box set – I believe

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