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16/03/2016
Verdun, feuillets de guerre (war leaves)
Françoise Masset and Anne Le Bozec play musical works often unpublished by composers of the 1st world war …
16/03/2016
Songs and Piyutim in honor of Tsaddik Sidna Baba Salé
The best Jewish singers from Morrocco, among them Samy Elmaghribi, Cheikh Mouizo or Maxime Michali, sing in honor of Rabbi Israel Abuhatzeira, aka Baba Salé …
08/03/2016
Jewish cradle songs 1st part
Listen to a selection of cradle songs from various traditions …
07/03/2016
Women’s singing in Jewish tradition
The status of women in the Jewish tradition is often source of controversy. The halakha - the Jewish law - generally puts the woman in the role of the housekeeper, educator of her children. But it has not always been like that …
17/02/2016
The French-Arabic song repertoire (1st part)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
In the 1930s, a new generation of North African singers launched a new musical trend based on covers of French songs in Arabic or the creation of songs mixing Arabic and French. This trend, which lasted for more than 70 years, was later called "Chanson francarabe" …
17/02/2016
In Love and in Struggle
The musical heritage of the Jewish Labor Bund, in 17 songs, sang by Zalmen Mlotek, Adrienne Cooper, Dan Rous, the New Yiddish Chorale and the Workmen’s Circle Chorus …
15/02/2016
Miriam’s Song
This is an album that pays tribute to Jewish women composers. In the 19th century, being a Jewish woman was a double obstacle for musicians and composers, who had to live with an anti-Semitic environment, as well as a strict distribution of roles between men and woman in the Jewish society …
11/02/2016
Je Chante! Magazine
The latest issue of the magazine Je Chante ! la revue de la chanson française has published an important file on the French-Arab song repertoire, with interviews and articles on Enrico Macias, Line Monty, Blond-Blond, Maurice El Médioni, Salim Hallali, José de Suza, Lili Boniche …