The Collections

Ben Zimet – Aux sources du klezmer

Released by MLP Music, this double CD by the singer Ben Zimet features classic hits of Yiddish songs (Dona, dona), less known tunes (Beker Lid) and original covers (Di Grine Kuzine – African version) …

Salim Halali

Released by Buda Musique in 2012, this CD dedicated to Salim Halali, born in 1920 in Annaba (Ex-Bône) in Algeria, testifies of Judeo-North African songs from the 1940’s until 1965 …

Cordoue 21

Six evocative ballads - from Granada to Cordoba, passing through the Balkans, Salonica, Istanbul and even Tunis, Algiers and Paris - construct this album, with the voice of Sandra Bessis, recognized singer of the Sefardi repertoire for more than 25 years, and the voice of Rachid Brahim-Djelloul. …

Irving Berlin

A musical score collection featuring the most popular songs from the American composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989) …

Fernand Halphen – Andante religioso

The melody of this work for violin or cello and keyboard (organ or piano) by Fernand Halphen is based on the melody of Friday’s evening prayer Veshomerou sung in the Consistorial synagogues that practice the Ashkenazi rite …

The compleat Klezmer

Published by Tara Publications in 2000, this music score collection, compiled by Henry Sapoznik, is the ultimate klezmer music anthology ! …

Le bled

In this mute movie, Jean Renoir evokes Algeria in the times of colonization, with a love story. …

Ben Zimet – Un enfant de la Corrèze

The CD of the last public appearance show by Ben Zimet with the Yiddish Quartet traces the childhood of the singer during and after the war, and maintains the memory of those who disappeared …

La Danse traditionnelle juive ashkénaze

In this book, the world's leading specialists in the traditonal dance of the former Yiddishland (Eastern Europe) describe this emblematic aspect of popular Ashkenazi Jewish culture …

Les Musigrains – A pedagogical institution (1939 – 1986)

Les Musigrains is a pedagogical and musical adventure lived in Parisian theaters. Thousands of young music lovers who attended more than 400 concerts performed by hundreds of musicians …

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