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24/01/2022
Rubin, Ruth (1906-2000)
Born into a Jewish family from Bessarabia, Ruth Rubin has devoted her life to the preservation and dissemination of Yiddish song. Her publications, based on her fieldwork, have made her one of the world's foremost collectors and specialists of Yiddish, following in the footsteps of Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) and Yehuda Leyb Cahan (1881-1937) …
19/01/2022
KREIN, ALEXANDER (1883-1951)
Alexander Krein (Aleksander Abramovič Krejn) was born on October 20, 1883 in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. His father, Abraham, was a violinist with a passion for Jewish music, …
18/01/2022
Concert Hebrew melodies for cello and piano
February 9, 2022 at 7pm, at the MAHJ - Paris. On the occasion of the release of the CD Hebrew melodies for cello and piano, vol. 2 published by the EIJM's publishing house, the EIJM and the MAHJ invite you to a concert of Hebrew melodies (liturgical music, Chassidic tunes, Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish songs...) performed by Sarah Iancu on the cello and David Bismuth on the piano …
11/01/2022
La source de vie: Sing to the Lord, a new song
French television program by Josy Eisenberg presenting an excerpt from a liturgical concert filmed at the Buffault synagogue (Paris), 1985 …
29/12/2021
ENGEL, JOEL (1868-1927)
Composer, folklorist and musicologist, Joel Engel was born in Berdyansk (Crimea) in 1868. After studying law and on the advice of Tchaikovsky, he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory, where he …
23/12/2021
Hebrew melodies for cello and piano, 2nd volume
This 2nd CD of Hebrew Melodies, mainly dedicated to the composers of the St. Petersburg Jewish school such as Joel Engel, Alexander Krein, Lazare Saminsky, Joachim Stutschewsky, Jacob Weinberg or Leo Zeitlin, also introduces us to lesser known works by Ernest Bloch, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vladimir Dyck …
14/12/2021
Zrihan, Emile
Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1952, Emile Zrihan (sometimes written “Zrihen”) was introduced to Jewish liturgical chant and Moroccan folk music at an early age. He emigrated to Israel with …
13/12/2021
Tounsi, El Kahlaoui (1932-2000)
El Kahlaoui Tounsi, whose real name was Elie Touitou, was born in Tunis on January 24, 1932. He spent his childhood in the popular neighborhoods which had a strong artistic …
13/12/2021
Release of 10 new music scores by Serge Kaufmann
The EIJM’s publishing house is happy to announce the release of 10 new music scores by Serge Kaufmann, a composer, but also a radio and TV host, journalist, producer and …
13/12/2021
The music label Samyphone
Discover the music label Samyphone, created by the Moroccan singer Samy Elmaghribi …