Music of the synagogue
18/01/2018
LEON, Gilbert (1934)
Son of Emile Léon and Valentine Leon, born Lévy, Gilbert Léon, born February 28, 1934 in Bordeaux, he was the eldest of a sibling of 3 children: Gilbert, Michel and …
31/05/2017
Liturgical music from the synagogue of la Victoire
Dedicated to the music from the synagogue of La Victoire ine Paris, this playlist brings us to listen to great musical figures that marked the history of this synagogue, and …
30/05/2017
La synagogue de la Victoire, 150 ans du judaïsme français
This extraordinary book beautifully illustrated was written by twenty specialists. It traces the history of this emblematic place, inseparable of French Judaism …
29/07/2015
Encounters of East and West in Music – Selected Writings
This book by the Israeli musicologist Hanoch Avenary studies several fundamental subjects, such as the music instruments of the Bible, the concept of modality in Jewish music, the parallels between synagogue and church music, and Jewish folklore …
29/07/2015
The sacred Bridge (volume II)
A reference study by the musicologist and composer Eric Werner (1901-1988) about the relations between music and the liturgy of the synagogue and the church in 1st millennium of the Christian era …
07/10/2014
Rossi, Salomone (Near 1570-Near 1630)
Salomone Rossi, or Shlomo Mi-ha-Adumim in Hebrew, came from an old Jewish family in Mantua, where he was born around 1570. Profiting from the tolerance granted to the Jews by …
26/11/2012
The psalms of the Jews from Constantine
The Great Rabbi René Guedj, André Taïeb, Yohan Bismuth and Ylane Zerbib present a selection of psalms interpreted in the purest tradition of Constantine (Algeria) …
30/03/2010
Algazi, Léon (1890-1971)
This article is dedicated to the memory of Jacques Algazi, who passed away on March 1, 2021, 50 years to the day after his father's death, and to Béatrice Algazi, his daughter, who kindly provided many of the elements used to write this tribute …
02/03/2010
Judeo-French music from the 18th and 19th century
This CD, performed by the cantor Adolphe Attia, accompanied by Mag Tayar (harpsichord, piano) and a choir directed by Michel Podolak, offers us an overview of the liturgical traditions of the Comtadins, the Portuguese and the Ashkenazim in France in the 18th and 19th centuries …
01/03/2010
Music from the synagogue of Bordeaux – Portuguese Rite
Recording of the concert of October 14, 2002 at the Great Synagogue of Bordeaux, to celebrate the 120th anniversary of its construction, with the main tunes of the Portuguese liturgy, performed by Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara, Léon Cohen and Didier Kassabi, accompanied by Mag Tayar, organist of the Great Synagogue of Marseille …