03/08/2015
Leibu Levin – Word and melody – Yiddish Poetry Set to Music
Leibu Levin (1914, Czernowitz - 1983, Hertzliya) was an actor, singer and composer. A great part of his work was written in Yiddish …
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 …
03/08/2015
Notre langue d’intérieur
This small book features a collection of autobiographic texts, funny and moving, from the singer Talila, with photographs by Franck Juery …
03/08/2015
American Klezmer – Its Roots and Offshoots
This collective work, edited by Mark Slobin, focuses on "American Klezmer - its roots and ramifications". Contributors include Michael Alpert, Walter Z. Feldman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Henry Sapoznik, Frank London or the violinist and composer Alicia Svigals …
03/08/2015
Voices of a People – The Story of Yiddish Folksong
An accessible and documented work, Voices of a People by Ruth Rubin is today the most important book available on Yiddish songs …
03/08/2015
Old Jewish Folk Music – The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
This book of reference features the writings and the works from the collecting of Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes done by the ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) in Soviet Union …
29/07/2015
Encounters of East and West in Music – Selected Writings
This book by the Israeli musicologist Hanoch Avenary studies several fundamental subjects, such as the music instruments of the Bible, the concept of modality in Jewish music, the parallels between synagogue and church music, and Jewish folklore …
29/07/2015
The Cantillation of the Bible – The Five Books of Moses
This documented work of 669 pages features a full study of the cantillatin of the Bible, illustrated with numerous musical notations …
29/07/2015
Le Piyyut de David Hassine
This book is dedicated to David Hassine (1722-1792), one of the masters of liturgical Jewish Moroccan poetry, from which the piyyutim were known all around the world …
29/07/2015
Le système cantilatoire de la Bible et son expression musicale dans les traditions juives des communautés méditerranéennes
A PhD by Mag Tayar, organist in the Grande Synagogue of Marseille and Doctor in musicology, dedicated to the cantillation system of the Bible in the Jewish traditions of Mediterranean cultures …
