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19/11/2024
The Jewish Wedding
The Jewish wedding is celebrated according to numerous customs and laws designed to bring out its full spiritual and material significance. Using gestures, symbolism and Hebrew verses, all these rites …
18/11/2024
Raphael Elfassy collection
In 2022 and then 2024, Christine Dangremont and Josiane Sberro donated to the IEMJ the archive of Raphael Elfassy (1939-2019), synagogue choirmaster, founder of the Ensemble de Musique Hébraïque de Paris, teacher and publisher of several discs of Jewish music …
14/11/2024
Elfassy, Raphael (1939-2019)
Raphael Elfassy was born on November 4, 1939 in Rabbat, Morocco. Like many children in the Moroccan community, he developed a precise and meticulous knowledge of sacred texts. He was …
13/11/2024
Finzi, Graciane (1945)
Born into a family of musicians on July 10, 1945, Graciane Finzi first studied at the Casablanca Conservatory, directed at the time by Georges Friboulet, then at the Conservatoire National …
10/11/2024
Adolphe Attia Collection
In July 2023, Adolphe Attia donated to the IEMJ a set of photos, programs and concert posters retracing his career as a cantor, to add to his archive of over 250 documents …
07/11/2024
Attia, Adolphe (1937)
Born into a modest family on April 23, 1937 in M’Sila, Algeria, Adolphe Attia was raised by his aunt in Bousaada, his mother having already had six children and his …
07/11/2024
Adolphe Attia, 50 years of Chazanut in France
In the collection « Life courses », Adolphe Attia tells us about his life and ministry at the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire between 1961 and 2014 …
27/10/2024
Jewish Patrons, Musicians and Composers during the Third French Republic (1870-1940)
Between 1870 and 1940, musical life in France depended largely on the support of a few enlightened, music-loving patrons. Among these patrons were a significant number of Jews …
14/10/2024
Schumann, Henriette born Halphen (1911-2002)
Daughter of Fernand Halphen and Alice de Koenigswarter, Henriette Halphen inherited a taste for music and art from her parents. In 1931, she composed two charming melodies for the organ, …
06/09/2024
Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue
The colloquium will take place over two days, during which some twenty singers, musicians, performers, choirmasters and musicologists will discuss their practice of Ashkenazi music, whether secular (Yiddish song, klezmer...) or religious (consistorial, liberal, hassidic rites...). Each of these two days will conclude with an exceptional concert to illustrate their point …