Choir director for decades in several synagogues in the Paris area (Neuilly, Montevideo, Saint-Lazare, Chasseloup), Raphael Elfassy (1939-2019) founded the Association artistique Guilgal de danses israéliennes et de chorale juive in 1971 and the Ensemble de Musique Hébraïque de Paris in 1990. A pedagogue and hard worker, he recorded eight albums of Jewish music and Israeli folklore and gave dozens of concerts with renowned performers such as Maurice Abourmad, Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara, Benjamin Duvshani, Daniel Geismann, Michel Heymann, Claude Hoenel, Mevorah Zerbib…
In 2022, his widow Christine and Josiane Sberro presented the European Institute of Jewish Music with a collection of some thirty scores and audio recordings. This collection was completed in February 2024 with the addition of a dozen photos, 12 videos and several concert posters and press articles, now digitized and accessible online.
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