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Entre deux rives – Chants séfarades et autres chants de la Méditerranée

Released in October 2005, this CD by Sandra Bessis (vocals, daff), Anello Capuano (ud, saz, ney, mandoline, daff) and Rachid Brahim-Djelloul (violin), blends Sefardi songs and other Mediterranean songs …

Poussières d’exil

This CD, initiated by the soprano Evelyne Dubosq, aims to restituate the Sefardi Jewish and Minor Asian Greek music heritage …

Nokh oyfn veg

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

Jewish instrumental Folk Music

A reference work on Klezmer music, translated and edited by Mark Slobin, Robert Rothstein and Michael Alpert, including many music transcriptions and a CD …

Jewish Identities

The writor, Klára Móricz, studies the concepts of the Jewish identity, rebuilding our comprehension of « Jewish music », as a growth of utopian ideologies, nationalism, racism …

Klezmer Studies

Here is a new method in the teaching of klezmer clarinet. Or how to face the first technical difficulties with simple and melodic pieces, composed in the spirit of klezmer music? …

Kol Nidré – 8 visions

Apart from the traditional Ashkenazi version of Kol Nidre played by Armand Benhamou and the Copernic Choral Ensemble, this CD offers seven other musical versions of the famous Yom Kippur prayer …

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 …

Jacques Grober – Yiddish songs from yesterday and today

Jacques Grober, one of the few French authors, composers and performers to have renewed the repertoire of Yiddish song over the last thirty years, writes songs about our lives …

The teamim, signs to sing the Torah

by Jean-Philippe Amar, PhD in the University of Paris IV Sorbonne …