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Kalarash ALBUM RELEASE Concert

On March 26, 2023, at 17:30, at the Espace Rachi Guy de Rothschild, Kalarash concert composed of klezmer music, Yiddish and French songs for the release of the album, proposed by the IEMJ, in partnership with the "Centre d'Art et de Culture", …

CONCERT : SIRBA OCTET

Watch some excerpts from the concert "A Yiddishe mame" given by the Sirba Octet on December 16, 2012 at the Copernic Synagogue as part of the "Music at Copernic" season …

Tsuzamen – Sirba Octet

This album is a formidable testimony of hope: the hope of the Jews, the Armenians, the gypsies whose repertoires the Sirba Octet wanted to mix so that fraternity is incarnated in music …

Jacinta Collection

Deposited at the EIJM in May 2022 by the artist, Jacinta's collection includes some forty photographies, from her youth in Argentina to her artistic career in Paris, as well as numerous recordings …

Jacinta, between Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish songs and tango

In the series " Life courses ", discover the attaching personality of Jacinta, an artist of Argentinian origin who also sings in Yiddish, in Judeo-Spanish... and in tango …

Jacinta, a life in song

Discover a selection of Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Argentinean and French songs by Jacinta, an artist with a golden voice …

Jacintas Zingers

(Paris, France) A choir directed by Jacinta, with a mainly Yiddish song repertoire, made up of three groups of singers according to level …

Jacinta

Author, composer, arranger, actress and singer, Sofia Jacinta Szlechtman was born on September 30, 1950 in Buenos Aires to a Russian-Polish Jewish family. Her maternal grandparents came to Buenos Aires …

Recording History

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization …

GHARAMOPHONE

This website, dedicated to the preservation of North African sound archives, presents several dozen 78 rpm records that can be listened to online …