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The chazan, the prayer and the synagogue’s chanting

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. As the bearer of the singing tradition of his synagogue, the chazan represents an extremely strong point of identity for the faithful …

Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 1)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Between 1911 and 1914, the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society, founded in St. Petersburg in 1908, organized an ethnographic expedition that recorded about 500 cylinders containing nearly a thousand songs …

La source de vie : At the time of the minstrels

A TV program hosted by Josy Eisenberg, directed by Pascale Kenigsberg-Cahen, with the participation of the Od Yossef Haï Foundation. Featuring an excerpt of the concert “Jews and trouvères” performed …

Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 2)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Using numerous musical examples, the second part of this program allows us to understand how today's artists use Yiddish musical archives to make their own creations …

Latkes un Fidlers

Radio show dedicated to klezmer music, Yiddish folklore and everything near to the repertoire of the Ashkenazi music, including more surprising things like electro-klezmer, experimental musoc, and Yiddish rock... Hosted by Jean-Gabriel Davis Broadcasted on May 13, 2012 …

Chanukah is coming soon – Concert

Watch excerpts from the Chanukah concert which took place on December 7, 2014, in the Copernic Synagogue in Paris. You will hear the Ensemble Choral Copernic perform the Overture of …

Chanukah, voices of lights

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 16, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.Enter the celebrations of Chanukah, with the cantor and rabbi Jacques Arnold : from liturgical tunes to children's songs (spinning tops, doughnuts) and popular songs (Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish...) …

Jewish songs of the 13th century in langue d’oïl and Hebrew

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This programme revives the sound life of the Jewish communities of Northern France in the 13th century and their contacts with the poetry and music of the trouvères …

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 …

Azafea : a Spanish odyssey into the heart of Sefardi music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A musical odyssey into the heart of Sephardic music, with Nadav Lev (guitar), Rémy Yulzari (double bass), Frank London (trumpet) and John Hadfield (percussion) …

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