The Collections

Maayan – De l’Andalousie à l’Orient… Le chant des femmes sépharades

The singer Naïma Chemoul explores her origins, those from Sephardi women. Accompanied by Samir Hammouch on the qanun, and Bonaventure Akoto on the percussions, she sings their words, their language, their daily duties …

Entre deux rives – Chants séfarades et autres chants de la Méditerranée

Released in October 2005, this CD by Sandra Bessis (vocals, daff), Anello Capuano (ud, saz, ney, mandoline, daff) and Rachid Brahim-Djelloul (violin), blends Sefardi songs and other Mediterranean songs …

Poussières d’exil

This CD, initiated by the soprano Evelyne Dubosq, aims to restituate the Sefardi Jewish and Minor Asian Greek music heritage …

Nokh oyfn veg

Polyphonic songs for mixed voices, harmonized for choir by and under the direction of Jean Golgevit. …

Jewish instrumental Folk Music

A reference work on Klezmer music, translated and edited by Mark Slobin, Robert Rothstein and Michael Alpert, including many music transcriptions and a CD …

Jewish Identities

The writor, Klára Móricz, studies the concepts of the Jewish identity, rebuilding our comprehension of « Jewish music », as a growth of utopian ideologies, nationalism, racism …

Klezmer Studies

Here is a new method in the teaching of klezmer clarinet. Or how to face the first technical difficulties with simple and melodic pieces, composed in the spirit of klezmer music? …

Passport to Jewish Music

The 27 chapters of this book by the musicologist Irene Heskes describe the various historic periods of Jewish music, since the Biblical times until modern period …

Music in ancient Israel

Well documented, this book by Alfred Sendrey presents the music at the Biblical time and in the beginning of the Talmudic period …

Yiddish blues (2) – Talila

On subtle arrangements by Teddy Lasry, Talila sings beautiful songs in Yiddish …

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Bolaffi, Michele (1768-1842)

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