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Inventory of Italian Jewish musical archives

As part of the European Jewish Music Network program initiated by the IEMJ, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane - UCEI) has launched in 2022-2023 a registry of Italian Jewish music archives …

The Music of the Jews in Italy: A Short Introduction

The history of Jewish music in Italy is long, fascinating, and filled with contradictions. Length is due to the very history of Italian Jewry, whose origins go back more than …

Concerts – Les Bubbey Mayse – LE PETIT MATIN DU GRAND SOIR

Album release concerts November 8 & 9, 2023 in Grenoble & Paris, as part of the Jazz'N'Klezmer Festival …

LES BUBBEY MAYSE – LE PETIT MATIN DU GRAND SOIR

This 9th CD of the "Discovery" Collection immerses us in the world of four magnificent musicians united by their love of klezmer music and the Yiddish language, and who draw from it the impulse to reinvent a brighter tomorrow …

Songs and prayers for Kippur, Soukkot and Simchat Torah

2 TALMUDIQUES broadcasts Part 1 & 2, September 24 & October 1, 2023, at 9:10 a.m. Songs and prayers for Kippur, Sukkot and Simhat Torah …

PERPETUEL KLEZMER – DENIS CUNIOT

Along with jazz, Klezmer music became involved in the everlasting movement of evolution and creation of the 1980s. In France, Denis Cuniot took and active part in its rediscovery …

The new Jewish scene

This playlist presents a selection of artists from the new Jewish scene who blend Klezmer, Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish and Oriental music with jazz, rock, punk, rap, Latin, hip-hop and more …

Launch of the Mémoire Radiophonique Juive program (Jewish Radio Memory)

Initiated by the European Institute of Jewish Music in 2019, the Mémoire Radiophonique Juive (MRJ) (Jewish Radio Memory) program makes available 2000 programs broadcast on Jewish radio stations since 1981. The opportunity to find events, themes and prestigious guests who have marked the history of the Jews of France and elsewhere …

Musique et musiciens de bal – Isaac Strauss au service de Napoléon III

This book by Laure Schnapper, a musicologist specializing in music in France in the 19th century, allows us to discover the personality and work of Isaac Strauss, a composer of Alsatian Jewish origin who made the great people of this word dance and contributed to the growth and prestige of France under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III …

Foundation ILMC

Created in 2014, the ILMC Foundation aims to protect and enhance the musical heritage written in concentration camps and other places of military and civilian captivity around the world between 1933 and 1953 and collected by Francesco Lotoro …