{"id":70613,"date":"2021-11-02T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/soul-of-yiddish\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:23:52","slug":"soul-of-yiddish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/soul-of-yiddish\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul of Yiddish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travelling between her love of classical music and the folk repertoire of Eastern Europe, where she finds her roots, No\u00ebmi Waysfeld<\/strong> created a musical journey which links those two worlds. Soul of Yiddish<\/em>, released by AWZ in March 2021, takes us to the melancholic beauty of traditional Yiddish songs, mixed with original compositions on texts written by the poetess Rivka Kope <\/strong>(1910-1995), as well as a Yiddish cover of the Barbara\u2019s French song A peine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

No\u00ebmi Waysfeld sang many times absence and despair. The songs of Russian prisoners in Siberia in Kalyma <\/em>(2012), the melancholic Portuguese fado in Alfama <\/em>(2015), and the solitude provoked by the loss of a dear one in Zimlya <\/em>(2019).<\/p>\n

In Soul of Yiddish<\/em>, her fifth album, it is no longer question of exile, but more of travelling. No\u00ebmi Waysfeld delivers an intimate and spiritual story; an exploration of her roots, for which she surrounded herself with the violin player Sarah Nemtanu, the guitarist Kevin Seddiki and the double bass player Antoine Rozenbaum.<\/p>\n

Just like a story-teller, No\u00ebmi Waysfeld\u2019s voice sound sandy, veiled, like the soft glow of a candle. And to finish in magnificence, she concludes the album with a beautiful performance of Kol Nidre\u00ef<\/em>, the prayer opening the celebration of Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n

The Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur reminds us, in the introduction of the booklet of the CD\u00a0Soul of\u00a0Yiddish<\/em>, that the history of the Jewish religion often deprived women to sing prayers. This Kol Nidre\u00ef<\/em> can be considered as a kick in an anthill: \u00ab\u00a0This liturgy from Yom Kippur claims that our words are neither reliable nor credible. Women, throughout history, were precisely accused of not being trustworthy. Now is the time to make hear other speeches. When their voices rise to lead the prayer or to revisit it, this \u00ab\u00a0naked\u00a0\u00bb truth suddenly appears.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n