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09/01/2013
Fuld, Léo (1912-1997)
Leo Fuld was one of the last popular Yiddish singers. His career started long before World War II and ended when he died in 1997. Before the Second World War, …
09/01/2013
The Jews from Iran and their music
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Disovering Jewish music from Iran, with Alain Chaoulli, author of a PhD on the Jewish musicians in Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their contribution to the safeguard of the Iranian musical heritage …
27/11/2012
Les Juifs d’Iran à travers leurs musiciens
In Iran the Jewish people had a special fate, a long history, which lasted more than 2 700 years in this country. The Jews from Iran liked and played the same music as the other people from Iran, and with the same pleasure. They appropriated the modes of Persian music in their religious chants …
26/11/2012
Ciao Habiba !
A few months after the Tunisian Revolution, a filmmaker comes back to her native country. She looks for a Tunisian diva, Habiba Messika, a woman too free, a singer, actress, burned by at the end of the 1930’s by one of her many lovers …
26/11/2012
The psalms of the Jews from Constantine
The Great Rabbi René Guedj, André Taïeb, Yohan Bismuth and Ylane Zerbib present a selection of psalms interpreted in the purest tradition of Constantine (Algeria) …
26/11/2012
Traditional and liturgical music of Algerian Jews
December 9, 2012 at 3pm and 5pm. As part of the "Jews of Algeria" exhibition (September 28, 2012 - January 27, 2013), the MAHJ and the IEMJ are organizing an exceptional concert of traditional and liturgical Algerian Jewish music …
18/11/2012
Music by Jews from Algeria
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2012, JUDAÏQUES FM, 21H05. In this programme, Anne-Hélène Hoog, historian, and curator of the exhibition "Les Juifs d'Algérie" at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, gives us a glimpse of this lost world, where Jews and Muslims were, for centuries, joint bearers of the Algerian musical heritage …
20/10/2012
Judeo-Spanish songs by women from Morocco
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2012, JUDAÏQUES FM, 21H05. Radio programme dedicated to the women of Morocco, custodians of an important repertoire of Judeo-Spanish songs, with the participation of Vanessa Paloma, associate researcher at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute of Brandeis University (Boston - USA) …
10/06/2012
Brandwein, Naftule (1889-1963)
Naftule Brandwein (1889–1963) was born in the small town called Przemyslany in Poland, not far from Lvov, belonging to Austrian Galicia at the time, and later returned to Poland in …
10/06/2012
Tarras, Dave (ca 1898-1989)
David Itsy Tarasyuk (ca 1898-1989), better known as Dave Tarras, was born in the village called Ternovka, near Uman in Ukraine. As a very young boy, he was immersed in …