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05/04/2016
Songs of Moroccan Jews 1st part
Judeo-Moroccan music comes from the fusion of Moroccan and Andalusian cultures With the expansion of recording methods and of vinyl records, the music from Moroccan Jews has gone worldwide and …
05/04/2016
Six CD boxsets from the Jewish Research Music Centre of Jerusalem
The goal of the Jewish Music Research Center of Jerusalem is the study and research of the musical heritage of Jewish communities of the past and present. It publishes regularly high quality discs and books …
30/03/2016
Music from Yiddish theaters and cabarets, 1st part
An overview of the many cultural and musical Yiddish activities in Paris from the beginning of the 19th century …
29/03/2016
The publications from the Armin Berg Society
Founded in 2003 and based in Vienna, Austria, the Armin Berg Society’s goals are the research on Jewish performing arts before World War II, and their restitution through live shows. …
29/03/2016
Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau on March 2, 1900. He was the third of four children of Emma Ackermann and Albert Weill, cantor in the synagogue of Dessau …
27/03/2016
Yiddish Glik
Special broadcast dedicated to revolutionary songs, broadcasted on March 2, 2016 …
22/03/2016
Release of the film “Mobile Etoile” directed by Raphaël Nadjari (France, 2016)
A film about synagogal music and the difficulty of reviving it. This is the subject of Raphaël Nadjari's latest film, showing in cinemas from Wednesday April 27, 2016 …
16/03/2016
Israel of yesterday and today
Israel, promised land, is a non-ending source of inspiration for many singers with Jewish origins... …
16/03/2016
The French-Arabic repertoire (2nd part)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 15, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
This second part will focus on the life and work of some emblematic representatives of the second generation of singers. Among them: Blond-Blond, Lili Boniche, Albert Darmon dit Staïffi, Luc Cherki, El Kalaoui Tounsi, Maurice El Médioni, without forgetting the singer of the pied-noir song: Enrico Macias …