Yiddish
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 …
11/12/2014
Barry Sisters
(From left to right: Claire and Myrna Barry) Myrna and Clara were born in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Herman and Ester, respectively from Russia and Austria, …
15/10/2014
Ben Zimet – from shadow to light
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 21, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Antwerp, 1940, young Benjamin Zimet is 5 years old when the Second World War breaks out …
18/09/2014
Ben Zimet – Un enfant de la Corrèze
The CD of the last public appearance show by Ben Zimet with the Yiddish Quartet traces the childhood of the singer during and after the war, and maintains the memory of those who disappeared …
03/06/2014
Witler, Ben-Zion (1907-1961)
Ben-Zion Witler (or Ben-Tsion Vitler, or also BenZion Wittler), was born in 1907 in Belz, in Galicia, and died in 1961. He was a singer, but also an actor and …
04/05/2014
Music and cuisine of the Ashkenazi
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - MAY 6, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Arielle Sion, a connoisseur of Yiddish culture, reveals the secrets of Ashkenazi gastronomy through Yiddish song …
21/12/2013
Sirba Octet – Yiddish Rhapsody
In 2009, to fulfill an order from the Pau Orchestra / Pays de Béarn, directed by Faycal Karoui, Isabelle Georges and Richard Schmoucler create Yiddish Rhapsody, an invitation to travel in the heart of Yiddish melodies from the folkloric repertoire of the Eastern Europe Jews …
14/12/2013
Sirba Octet – Du Shtetl à New-York
A thrilling explosion of music blending folk and musical theatre. A journey back to the roots of American music by way of brilliant musicians, strong emotions and dancing shoes. …