Yiddish
06/03/2026
Lifshitz, Nehama (1927-2017)
The soprano Nehama (or Nechama) Lifshitz (1927-2017), often nicknamed “the Jewish nightingale,” was one of the leading figures of the Jewish cultural renaissance of the 20th century. Through her performances …
24/02/2026
Purim songs in Yiddish
A selection of Yiddish songs for the holiday of Purim, performed by Pesach Burstein, Arkady Gendler, Sarah Gorby, Masha Benya, The Bursteins, and others …
15/05/2025
Yiddish song in France
Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations …
12/11/2023
CONCERT Kalarash – Klezmer music, Yiddish and French songs
Watch excerpts from the Kalarash - Klezmer music, Yiddish and French songs album release concert, held on March 26, 2023 at 5:30pm at Espace Rachi - Guy de Rothschild …
20/09/2023
LES BUBBEY MAYSE – LE PETIT MATIN DU GRAND SOIR
This 9th CD of the "Discovery" Collection immerses us in the world of four magnificent musicians united by their love of klezmer music and the Yiddish language, and who draw from it the impulse to reinvent a brighter tomorrow …
01/02/2023
Tsuzamen – Sirba Octet
This album is a formidable testimony of hope: the hope of the Jews, the Armenians, the gypsies whose repertoires the Sirba Octet wanted to mix so that fraternity is incarnated in music …
20/01/2023
Jacinta, a life in song
Discover a selection of Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Argentinean and French songs by Jacinta, an artist with a golden voice …
18/10/2022
KALARASH – KLEZMER MUSIC, YIDDISH AND FRENCH SONGS
This 8th CD of the Discovery Collection gathers klezmer music, Yiddish and French songs by Kalarash, a French group that has been exploring the traditional music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans for 12 years …
24/01/2022
Rubin, Ruth (1906-2000)
Born into a Jewish family from Bessarabia, Ruth Rubin has devoted her life to the preservation and dissemination of Yiddish song. Her publications, based on her fieldwork, have made her one of the world's foremost collectors and specialists of Yiddish, following in the footsteps of Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) and Yehuda Leyb Cahan (1881-1937) …
02/11/2021
Soul of Yiddish
Travelling between her love of classical music and the folk repertoire of Eastern Europe, where she finds her roots, Noëmi Waysfeld created a musical journey which links those two worlds …