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Liturgie juive traditionnelle

The cantor Michel Heymann donated all his recordings to the European Institute of Jewish Music in the beginning of 2013. This CD makes us hear the great tunes of the Ashkenazi traditional Jewish liturgy from Alsace and Lorraine …

Michel Heymann – Liturgie juive achkenaze traditionnelle

This recording presents the main prayers of Rosh Hashana’s morning service, sung in the Ashkenazi rite of the East of France. The cantor Michel Heymann gave, in the beginning of …

Les Juifs d’Iran à travers leurs musiciens

In Iran the Jewish people had a special fate, a long history, which lasted more than 2 700 years in this country. The Jews from Iran liked and played the same music as the other people from Iran, and with the same pleasure. They appropriated the modes of Persian music in their religious chants …

Ciao Habiba !

A few months after the Tunisian Revolution, a filmmaker comes back to her native country. She looks for a Tunisian diva, Habiba Messika, a woman too free, a singer, actress, burned by at the end of the 1930’s by one of her many lovers …

Schubert Klezmer

Inside a Viennese café around 1820, musicians play in a corner. Franz Schubert speaks with his friend Solomon Sulzer, cantor in a synagogue close by, and other less known musicians, Jewish or not …

Cheikh Raymond – Anthology (original records 1937 – 1961)

Since his death on June 22, 1961, the original records of Cheikh Raymond Leyris have oscillated from relics to myths. In France, exiles from a lost country kept precious old …

Cheikh Raymond – Une histoire algérienne

Raymond Leyris, aka Cheikh Raymond, had a French name, was Jewish and sang in Arabic. Born in Constantine in 1912, he was the undisputed master of Arab-Andalusian music. This book written by Bertrand Dicale is a big jump into the lost world of Algerian Judaism …

A la una yo naci

A la una yo naci is the first intimate CD by Esther Ackermann. The young lady restored the Judeo-Spanish songs thet her mother, who came from Tangier, sang to her when she was a little girl …

KALYMA – YIDDISH RUSSIAN MUSIC

Noëmi Waysfeld and her band Blik blow a new wind on traditional Yiddish songs and heartbreaking melodies of Siberian prisoners. With guest stars Sonia Wieder Atherton and David Krakauer …

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – Lost Causes

Since 2005, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird has become an international cultural phenomenon which challenges all categorization. Yiddish punk cabaret ? East-European folk-rock ? Crazy klezmer ? …

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Baqqachot

On Saturday mornings in winter, before sunrise, Jews from the Maghreb and the Middle East gather at the synagogue to…

Discovering baqqachot

This playlist features recordings of Baqqashot songs from the Yerushalmi and Moroccan traditions

Shirat ha-Baqqashot according to the Moroccan rite

Ariel Danan, a skilled connoisseur of baqqashot, traces the history of this liturgical poetry and provides musical examples in the…

Exils

In this intimate album, violinist Elsa Moatti plunges us into her roots, her "inner geography", to deliver an album imbued…