Yiddish

Sirba Octet – A Yiddishe Mame

A Yiddishe Mame is built on classic melodies with vibrant phrasing which dance and sing and reinvent themselves through the ages and across borders by way of journeys and stories retold. …

Moishe Oysher – Passover Seder, Kol Nidrei & Chanukah Party

This 2 CD box set includes 29 tracks from Passover seder, Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur) and Hanukka’s services, performped by the cantor and actor of Yiddish theatre Moishe Oysher (1906-1958) …

Alpen klezmer

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 …

Les Yiddishe Mamas et Papas

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

Eva Golgevit chante toujours

Eva always sang. Even in Auschwitz concentration camps, singing was a mean of fight and hope. This book and CD is her heritage. It features 41 songs and 6 poems with lyrics in Yiddish, their transliteration and French translation …

The representation of the Jewish mother in Yiddish song

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2012, JUDAIQUE FM (94.8), 21h05. Hervé Roten invites Yitshok Niborski and Patrick Berman to talk with humor about the numerous songs that deal with the theme of Jewish mothers in the Yiddish song …

KALYMA – YIDDISH RUSSIAN MUSIC

Noëmi Waysfeld and her band Blik blow a new wind on traditional Yiddish songs and heartbreaking melodies of Siberian prisoners. With guest stars Sonia Wieder Atherton and David Krakauer …

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – Lost Causes

Since 2005, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird has become an international cultural phenomenon which challenges all categorization. Yiddish punk cabaret ? East-European folk-rock ? Crazy klezmer ? …

Nokh oyfn veg

Polyphonic songs for mixed voices, harmonized for choir by and under the direction of Jean Golgevit. …

Serge Kaufmann – Ima ou la mère dépossédée (IMA OR THE DISPOSSESSED MOTHER)

Is it possible to write Jewish music without using one traditional theme? This is the bet taken, and won, by Serge Kaufmann, who gives us with this CD a work colored with strong Jewish accents …