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23/01/2025
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme collection
Mostly deposited in April 2022, the collection of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (MAHJ) mainly consists of records, including many rare 78s in an excellent state of preservation …
16/01/2025
Baqqachot
On Saturday mornings in winter, before sunrise, Jews from the Maghreb and the Middle East gather at the synagogue to sing baqqachot, a set of liturgical, sometimes mystical poems …
15/01/2025
Discovering baqqachot
This playlist features recordings of Baqqachot songs from the Yerushalmi and Moroccan traditions …
13/01/2025
Shirat ha-Baqqashot according to the Moroccan rite
Ariel Danan, a skilled connoisseur of baqqashot, traces the history of this liturgical poetry and provides musical examples in the Moroccan tradition …
08/01/2025
Exils
In this intimate album, violinist Elsa Moatti plunges us into her roots, her "inner geography", to deliver an album imbued with resilience, vibrancy and sensitivity …
08/01/2025
Chamber Works by Robert Müller-Hartmann & Frederick Block
The seventh and eighth CDs in the Music in Exile series, Chamber Music by Robert Müller-Hartmann and Chamber Music by Frederick Block, released by Chandos in 2023 and 2024 respectively, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of these two Jewish composers, German and Austrian, who emigrated to England and the USA in the 1930s to escape Nazism …
07/01/2025
Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians: Their History and Culture
Remarkably well-documented, this thousand-page encyclopedia presents the history of the British synagogal music …
09/12/2024
Jewish music and cuisine
A musical and gastronomic conference by Hervé Roten, director of the European Institute of Jewish Music …
05/12/2024
Les enfants de l’espérance, a score by Graciane Finzi
This original score was composed for the YWAM-Copernic Talmud Torah Children's Choir, directed by conductor Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut. Graciane Finzi composed the music and Rabbi Philippe Haddad the lyrics …
05/12/2024
Cantata Shma Kolenu by Itaï Daniel, finally available on score!
The European Institute of Jewish Music publishes the Cantata Shma Kolenu, a major work by ltaï Daniel, for 4-part choir, solo baritone, clarinet in A and string trio …