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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 …

Alexandre Tansman – Regards en arrière

The work and personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) deserve to be better known, as it was so rich of experiences, and filled with touching people, famous or not. In Regards en arrière, a text written between 1954 and 1958, the composer comes back on his years of training in Poland, and career in France and USA …

Tansman, Alexandre (1897-1986)

Born in Łódź, the 11th of June 1897, in a Jewish bourgeois family, cultivated and music loving, Alexandre Tansman started composing music at a very young age « in the …

The Jewish work of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. With Mireille Tansman Zanuttini (daughter of the composer) and the musicologist Cédric Segond-Genovesi, on the occasion of the release of Alexandre Tansman's memoirs published by the Editions Aedam Musicae …

Heymann, Michel (1952)

Born on April 25, 1952 in Strasburg, he was the last pupil, before it closed definitely, of the Hazan’s School in Paris, but he was also, and most of all, …

Liturgie juive traditionnelle

The cantor Michel Heymann donated all his recordings to the European Institute of Jewish Music in the beginning of 2013. This CD makes us hear the great tunes of the Ashkenazi traditional Jewish liturgy from Alsace and Lorraine …

Michel Heymann – Liturgie juive achkenaze traditionnelle

This recording presents the main prayers of Rosh Hashana’s morning service, sung in the Ashkenazi rite of the East of France. The cantor Michel Heymann gave, in the beginning of …

Purim or Esther’s holiday in music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). This radio program, commented and supervised by the cantor and Rabbi Jacques Arnold, offers an unprecedented musical vision of the festival of Purim: readings of the Megillat Esther in different traditions to popular and children's songs, from Purim-Shpil to art music - such as Esther's oratorio (1774) of Lidarti …

Fuld, Léo (1912-1997)

Leo Fuld was one of the last popular Yiddish singers. His career started long before World War II and ended when he died in 1997. Before the Second World War, …

The Jews from Iran and their music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Disovering Jewish music from Iran, with Alain Chaoulli, author of a PhD on the Jewish musicians in Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their contribution to the safeguard of the Iranian musical heritage …