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Latkes un Fidlers

Hosted by Jean-Gabriel Davis and broadcasted on Radio XP (webradio) on May 27, 2012. Yiddish and klezmer music about food and drinks. …

Yahudice

CD of Judeo-Spanish songs from Istanbul, Izmir, Thessalonica and Jerusalem. Booklet in English, Turkish, Judeo-Spanish and Hebrew, published in 2003 by KALAN editions, Istanbul …

THE LÉON ALGAZI COLLECTION

Deposited at the Yuval organisation in the 1990’s, then at the EIJM between 2007 and 2020, the Léon Algazi Collection around 600 documents (sheet music, audio files, films, photographies and other various archives) coming mainly from the Algazi family and from the archives of the Grande synagogue de la Victoire …

Yiddish Glik

Hosted by Douglas Kiman, broadcasted on Judaïque FM on November 9, 2016. Klezmer music ; guests : Michel Schick and Cédric Chatelain. …

The Oriental festival

LE FESTIVAL ORIENTAL – NOVEMBER 11, 2019, RADIO J (94.8), 16H05 - Broadcasts 44 and 45, hosted by Avner Azoulay …

THE PAUL FENTON COLLECTION

Deposited in January 2019, the Fenton (Shahak) collection contains around 250 documents : rare books, old musical scores, song books, press cuts, audio cassettes, 33 and 78 RPM discs and CD’s …

Listening to the sacred

Audio recording of the conference "Listening to the sacred", organisde by the Villa Gillet and the Institution des Chartreux in Lyon, on January 30, 2020, with the participation of Hervé Roten, Jean During, Jean-Clément Jollet and François-Xavier Szymczak (moderator) …

Mes joyeux compagnons

Since 2010, the band Kalarash has explored klezmer music and music from the Balkans (Romania and Greece) with their string instruments, violin, double bass, tsimbl, and polyglot vocals. …

The Jews in Maghreb through their singers and musicians in the 19th and 20th century

Specialist of Iranian Jewish culture, Alain Chaoulli presents in his book a wide panorama of Judeo-Arab-Andalusian music of the three countries from the Maghreb, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia …

Cohen, Judith

A singer and performer on medieval and traditional instruments, ethnomusicologist and university lecturer, Judith Cohen was born in Montreal (Canada). Since the 1970’s, she travelled frequently (Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal, …