Yiddish
20/10/2015
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel’s Lemberg Yiddish Theater, 1906-1910
Gimpel’s Yiddish theater of Lemberg was the first permanent Yiddish theater in Europe. Several 78 RPM discs of songs from this theater were recorded between 1906 and 1910. This CD, produced by Julian Futter and Michael Aylward, restored it for our pleasure …
18/10/2015
Waks – Yiddish Voices
Drawing from sounds recorded on wax cylinders between 1928 and 1941 by Sofia Magid and Moishe Beregovsky, the musicians Inge Mandos (vocals), Klemens Kaatz (piano, accordion, harmonium) and Hans-Christian Jaenicke (violin) start a dialogue defying time with voices from the past …
01/09/2015
Cooper, Adrienne (1946-2011)
Adrienne Khana Cooper (September 1, 1946 – December 25, 2011) was a singer – one of the great Yiddish performer’s of our time – and an activist. She played a …
03/08/2015
Leibu Levin – Word and melody – Yiddish Poetry Set to Music
Leibu Levin (1914, Czernowitz - 1983, Hertzliya) was an actor, singer and composer. A great part of his work was written in Yiddish …
03/08/2015
Notre langue d’intérieur
This small book features a collection of autobiographic texts, funny and moving, from the singer Talila, with photographs by Franck Juery …
03/08/2015
Voices of a People – The Story of Yiddish Folksong
An accessible and documented work, Voices of a People by Ruth Rubin is today the most important book available on Yiddish songs …
03/08/2015
Old Jewish Folk Music – The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
This book of reference features the writings and the works from the collecting of Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes done by the ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) in Soviet Union …
13/07/2015
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) …
04/03/2015
Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 1)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Between 1911 and 1914, the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society, founded in St. Petersburg in 1908, organized an ethnographic expedition that recorded about 500 cylinders containing nearly a thousand songs …
10/02/2015
Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 2)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Using numerous musical examples, the second part of this program allows us to understand how today's artists use Yiddish musical archives to make their own creations …