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Yiddish Glik

Radio show dedicated this month to the Parisian festival of Jewish culture …

Le grand livre des musiques sacrées du monde

The EIJM just received the latest book by Gérard Kurkdjian, dedicated to sacred music. In 18 chapters, he travels through the great musical traditions in Christianism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Animism …

European Institute of Jewish Music (EIJM) – 10 years already !

Created in 2006, the EIJM celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2016. Ten busy years which have enabled it to become the most important European resource and documentation centre for Jewish music …

Judeo-Spanish songs 1st part

Songs in Judeo-Spanish, the vernacular language of the descendants of Jews chased from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 and 1497 …

Songs of Sefardi Jews

An introductive article about the singing of Sefardi Jews …

Binn, Sylvain (1911-1999)

Sylvain Binn was born in Luxembourg on March 8th 1911. His father, Salomon Binn, native of Lithuania, was a cantor in the Jewish community of Luxembourg. His mother, Sidonie Guggenheim, …

Shavuot – a door into the 8th dimension

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 7, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Learn everything concerning the holiday Shavuot and its music …

Shavuot 1st part

To celebrate the Jewish holiday Shavuot, we offer you this playlist to listen to …

Tur Malka

Tur Malka is the most recent project of the multi-instrumentist Henri Oppenheim. He transposed the rich musical traditions from the Old world to the New world, through a cycle of original songs, on Yiddish poems from Montreal from the 20th century. …

The revival of klezmer music – Hervé Roten and Denis Cuniot

As part of the Days of Yiddish culture 2010, Hervé Roten, ethnomusicologist and director of the European Institute of Jewish Music and Denis Cuniot, klezmer pianist, present to us a general view on the revival of klezmer music …