Yiddish Glik

Hosted by Jean-Gabriel Davis

The MEDEM Center along with the CLEJ just edited a songbook in Yiddish and in French called Mir Zingen. Songs from the BUND, from worker’s fights, folk songs, songs of brotherhood… are all in this songbook.

On this occasion, Jean-Gabriel Davis, who hosts a monthly radio show in French dedicated to Yiddish culture, presents a special broadcast on this songbook. We will hear songs from this book, sang by Chava Alberstein, the Yeux Noirs, Klunk, the Barry Sisters, Cartouche…

Read the article dedicated to the songbook Mir Zingen

Visit the MEDEM Center’s website
Visit the CLEJ’s website

Jean-Gabriel Davis is a musician, singer (especially with the band Klunk), archivist at the EIJM , host of radio programs, and passionate of Yiddish. In 2012, he created and hosted a radio broadcast called “Latkes un Fidlers”, dedicated to klezmer music, Yiddish songs, and everything close to that. That show was broadcasted on a web radio, Radio XP, the radio of the Gare Expérimentale, a Paris non lucrative organisation of alternative and underground cuilture.

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