Yiddish
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 …
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 …
