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Zabulon Sebban (1911-1983) followed rabbinic studies with the great Rabbi Isaac Hanoune, before serving as a cantor in the Great Temple of Algiers. This CD, produced by his children, features 26 songs of prayer : from Biblical cantilation to famous melodies from the Algiers’ liturgy …

In 1950, Alexandre Tansman finished the composition of his oratorio Isaïe the Prophet, one of his favorite works, which he dedicated to the six million Jews who were killed during the Second World War …

Ani maamin is the latest work by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). This cantata, which was put on a text by Elie Wiesel, deported in Auschwitz at the age of 15, describes the horror of the extermination camps and the martyr of the Jews …

A gypsy with a deadly charm, La Petenera was a woman from Paterna de Rivera near Cadix in Andalusia, in the 18th century. Her name was given to a song and a dance of flamenco …

In Yiddish, the Balabosta is the housekeeper, the women who cooks the gefilte fish for the family, who knits the thread of tradition and heritage. The Balabosta trio tells the story of the klezmer music heritage …

The CD Alpen Klezmer was born with the observation that the Yiddish and Bavarian traditions have certain songs in common. The singer Andrea Pancur gathered many musicians around her in this original project to restore klezmer music from the mountain pastures …

Founded in 1988 by Andor Izsák, the Europaïsches Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (EZJM) in Hanover published around 10 CD’s, mainly music for choral and organ, featuring in particular works by Louis Lewandowski, Ernest Bloch, Alberto Mizrahi …

Created in 1996 in Strasbourg, the band Yiddishe Mamas et Papas offer us an explosive cocktail of Jazz, Twist, Charleston... sung in Yiddish …

Klezmanouche - with the singer Astrid Ruff - offers a meeting between « klezmer » music (Jewish music from the Yiddishland) and Gypsy jazz …