France
30/07/2020
Jewish music in France
This article which is written after Hervé Roten's research presents the Jewish musical practices in France …
10/05/2017
Jewish Music in Paris in the Aftermath of WWII, Elesdisc 1948-1953
Publication in the "Archives" collection of an anthology of 6 CDs of post-war Yiddish cabaret music, based on recordings published by the Elesdisc label between 1948 and 1953, entirely remastered! …
03/08/2015
Tshiriboym – Nouveaux chants yiddish
Tshiriboym gathers 48 songs written by Jacques Grober (1951-2006), author, composer and singer, since the 1980’s, and 9 nigunim, melodies inspired from the Chasidic tradition …
02/02/2015
Halphen, Alice (1878-1963)
Born in 1878, Alice Halphen, born Koenigswarter, died in 1963. Officer of the French Legion of Honour, she was a member for many years of the Committee of the Israelite …
23/10/2014
Zadoc-Kahn, Geneviève (1914-2001)
Geneviève Zadoc-Kahn was the grand daughter of the rabbi Zadoc Kahn and one of the great grand daughters of rabbi Salomon Ulmann. Her childhood wasn’t spared from difficult events : …
15/10/2014
Ben Zimet – from shadow to light
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 21, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Antwerp, 1940, young Benjamin Zimet is 5 years old when the Second World War breaks out …
30/09/2014
Jews and Trouvères
This record brings back to life, for the greatest joy of our ears and hearts, a world that disappeared after the final expulsion of the Jews from France in 1394 …
18/09/2014
Ben Zimet – Un enfant de la Corrèze
The CD of the last public appearance show by Ben Zimet with the Yiddish Quartet traces the childhood of the singer during and after the war, and maintains the memory of those who disappeared …
06/05/2014
Lebas, Renée (1917-2009)
Born in Paris on April 23rd, 1917, Renée Lebas (born Leiba) lived with her parents, Romanian Jewish immigrants in France, and her younger sister in the Bastille neighborhood. At the …
09/03/2014
Fernand Halphen, a Jewish composer in the Great War
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 11, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.Laure Schnapper, a musicologist and the president of the EIJM will tell us about the history and the music of this Jewish composer, killed on duty for France …