Yiddish
04/12/2017
Oyf der tsung
Here is the first album of the Marx Sisters, French quintet, who perform traditional songs of Yiddish folklore. …
22/11/2017
Jewish Music in Paris in the Aftermath of World War II
This video, made with archives deposited at the European Institute of Jewish Music, was screened at the Medem Center-Arbeter Ring, on April 22, 2017, during a conference by Hervé Roten …
22/11/2017
Yiddish revolutionary songs
Many revolutionary songs have been written in Yiddish since the end of the 19th century until today Many revolutionary songs have been written in Yiddish, by composers such as David …
01/07/2017
Hidden sides of Hélène Engel, author, composer and performer of Jewish music.
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – JULY 4, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. The singer Hélène Engel has been involved in the revival of Jewish music in France since the early 1980s. A contemporary of Jacques Grober, Rosalie Becker, Violette Szmajer, Michèle Tauber and Meredith, she sings in Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, French and English, and has recorded 5 CDs to date …
26/06/2017
Trésors du cinéma yiddish [Treasures of Yiddish cinema]
4 emblematic films of Yiddish cinema, made mainly in Poland, Russia and the USA between 1930 and 1950. More than 10 hours of stories and Yiddish music, often unpublished …
10/05/2017
Yiddish music in Parisian cabarets after WWII
A filmed conference, presented by Hervé Roten and David Winter, as part of the first edition of "Campus en musique" organized by the Medem-Arbeter Ring …
10/05/2017
Jewish Music in Paris in the Aftermath of WWII, Elesdisc 1948-1953
Publication in the "Archives" collection of an anthology of 6 CDs of post-war Yiddish cabaret music, based on recordings published by the Elesdisc label between 1948 and 1953, entirely remastered! …
06/03/2017
Itsik’s Megilah
Released in March 2015, the Medem Center Arbeter Ring in Paris published the famous Purim Shpil written by the poet Itsik Manger (1901-1969), with lyrics and music score, put on music by Dov Seltzer …
09/01/2017
The Hidden Sides of Jewish Music: Songs from American Yiddish Theaters
Radio broadcast by Hélène Engel, diffused on Radio SHALOM Montreal on January 1, 2015 …