News

15/06/2016

Judeo-Spanish songs 1st part

Songs in Judeo-Spanish, the vernacular language of the descendants of Jews chased from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 and 1497 …

15/06/2016

Secular music

Songs of Sefardi Jews

An introductive article about the singing of Sefardi Jews …

14/06/2016

Biographies

Binn, Sylvain (1911-1999)

Sylvain Binn was born in Luxembourg on March 8th 1911. His father, Salomon Binn, native of Lithuania, was a cantor in the Jewish community of Luxembourg. His mother, Sidonie Guggenheim, …

08/06/2016

Radio programs

Shavuot – a door into the 8th dimension

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 7, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Learn everything concerning the holiday Shavuot and its music …

07/06/2016

Playlists

Shavuot 1st part

To celebrate the Jewish holiday Shavuot, we offer you this playlist to listen to …

07/06/2016

CD

Tur Malka is the most recent project of the multi-instrumentist Henri Oppenheim. He transposed the rich musical traditions from the Old world to the New world, through a cycle of original songs, on Yiddish poems from Montreal from the 20th century …

03/06/2016

Lectures / conferences

The revival of klezmer music – Hervé Roten and Denis Cuniot

As part of the Days of Yiddish culture 2010, Hervé Roten, ethnomusicologist and director of the European Institute of Jewish Music and Denis Cuniot, klezmer pianist, present to us a general view on the revival of klezmer music …