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Commando Musik

Book written by Willem de Vries, released in October 2019 by Buchet-Chastel Editions, in which are described the process of pillage and dispossession organized by the nazi regime, through the special commando, the Sonderstab Musik, eager to eliminate all mark of Jewish musical culture in Europe …

The night of theology – 4th edition

Thursday January 30, 2020 from 7 pm to 11h30 pm. An evening dedicated to relations between music and religion, and then to the ecological question, conceived and organized by the Villa Gillet and the Institution des Chartreux, as part of the festival La Nuit des Idées. In collaboration with the Fonds de dotation des Chartreux and RCF …

Jewish Music: When Singular is Plural

Wednesday November 6, 2019, 6 pm a lecture by Hervé Roten, Director of the European Institute of Jewish Music, at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (ITALY), in the framework of the session Art as/in Dialogue: Jewish and Christian Music …

Musiques dans les camps nazis

With a frightening description of the nazi concentration camp system, Bruno Giner shows how music can be deflected in order to profit the lowest instincts and absolute horror. A salutary book against the banality of evil …

Latkes un Fidlers – may 20, 2012

A program by Jean-Gabriel Davis on Radio XP focusing on Ashkenazi music in all its forms. Music by Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Shura Lipovsky, Lloica Czackis, Golem, Zawel Kwartin, Psoy Korolenko, Oy Division. …

Métamorphose des mélodies

Double album of Hebrew and Yiddish songs, performed by Michèle Tauber, accompanied by Laurent Grynszpan on the piano …

The Oriental festival

LE FESTIVAL ORIENTAL – October 7, 2019, RADIO J (94.8), 16H05 - Broadcasts 40 and 41, hosted by Avner Azoulay …

Hidden Sides of Jewish Music : Adio España from the Baltimore Consort

Hosted by Hélène Engel broadcasted on Radio SHALOM Montreal in 2012. In this broadcast, Hélène Engel presents the CD "Adio España" from the band Baltimore Consort, released in 2009. …

Giacomo Meyerbeer

This new volume from the Horizons collection, released in february 2017 by the Editions Bleu Nuit, offers us to meet a master of the French “Grand Opera”, forsaken and misknowned. …

Simkhat Hanefesh – Early Yiddish Music

This beautiful CD released in Germany in 2017, features ashkenazi songs from the Renaissance and the baroque era, sung in Western Yiddish …