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OVES – Resonance of the Past

Released in May 2019 at Pike’s Nice Records, the CD OVES – Resonance of the Past presents misknowned Yiddish songs, as well as musical fragments from wax-cylinder recordings …

The Oriental festival

LE FESTIVAL ORIENTAL – May 13, 2019, RADIO J (94.8), 16H05 - Broadcast 15, hosted by Avner Azoulay …

The EIJM’s Gala Concert – 5th edition – From the synagogue to the opera : Jacques Offenbach and friends

On November 17, 2019, 5:30 pm, Salle Cortot - Paris, the IEMJ invites you to a concert of original Hebrew Works by Isaac and Jacques Offenbach, Jacques Fromental Halévy, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Erlanger and Emile Jonas …

THE FRIDA AND MOTEK WASERMAN COLLECTION

This holding gathering 33 and 45 RPM discs was donated to the European Institute of Jewish Music by Mme Frida Waserman …

Ledor Vador : Klezmer and Chasidic music by the composers of classical music

31st show hosted by Hector Sabo, broadcasted on Radio Judaïca Strasbourg in 2018. …

La Chorale le Chant Sacré

This 2nd CD from the choir Le Chant Sacré (The Sacred Song) was recorded for a concert that took place in the Synagogue of Obernai, in November 2012. One can hear on it tunes for Shabbat, the High Holidays (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, among which Shavuot …

Gerovitch, Eliezer (1844-1914)

Born in Kitaigorod, in the province of Kiev, in Russia, in 1844, Eliezer Mordechai ben Yitschak Gerovitch received a religious education in various Yeshivoth (institutions that provided a thorough teaching …

Ledor Vador : The Sacred Service by Ernest Bloch, 3rd part

30th show hosted by Hector Sabo, broadcasted on Radio Judaïca Strasbourg in 2018 …

Simha Arom, itinerary of an exceptional ethnomusicologist – From Düsseldorf to Jerusalem, from Central African music to those of Ethiopian Jews

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – JUNE 4, 2019, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8) 21H00 The story of Simha (name that means « joy » in Hebrew) seems to come from a bad book. Born in 1930 in a Jewish family from Düsseldorf, Simha was forced to exile with his family after the Crystal Night (1938) …

Simha

A film by Jérôme Blumberg, produced by Gabriel Chabanier, which highlights the uncommon career of the famous ethnomusicologist Simha Arom …