The Cantor (Chazan)
10/11/2024
Adolphe Attia Collection
In July 2023, Adolphe Attia donated to the IEMJ a set of photos, programs and concert posters retracing his career as a cantor, to add to his archive of over 250 documents …
07/11/2024
Adolphe Attia, 50 years of Chazanut in France
In the collection « Life courses », Adolphe Attia tells us about his life and ministry at the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire between 1961 and 2014 …
15/12/2022
Michel Heymann has entrusted his entire music archives to the EIJM
On December 7, 2022, Michel Heymann has given to the EIJM his entire musical archives accumulated during his long career as a cantor in Haguenau, Mulhouse and Luxembourg …
16/05/2022
Jacques Arnold, a life serving chazanut
In the collection « Life courses », discover the endearing personality of the cantor Jacques Arnold, who tells us about his apprenticeship in the art of cantorial singing at the Séminaire Israélite de France in the 1960s …
26/03/2019
Tribute concert to Cantor Moshe Koussevitzki
Concert filmed for the 25th anniversary of the death of Cantor Moshe Koussevitzki …
30/11/2015
The cantor or chazan : a vector of synagogal chanting – Jacques Arnold
As part of the day of sudy Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to sacred Jewish music, Jacques Arnold, chazan, rabbi and member of the Jewish choir of France invites us …
10/03/2015
The chazan, the prayer and the synagogue’s chanting
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. As the bearer of the singing tradition of his synagogue, the chazan represents an extremely strong point of identity for the faithful …