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KlezNorth 2026
From 17 to 19 April 2026 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire As they have done every year for many years, klezmer music enthusiasts gather in the spring in the hills of Derbyshire. Amateurs and ...
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Ot Azoy 2025 – Learn Yiddish
From 17 to 22 August 2025 The Jewish Music Institute is offering a week of immersion in Yiddish, its language, songs and culture. Courses at different levels are proposed, for beginners and ...
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Cabaret Milmoul
18 March 2025, 7pm at the Centre Communautaire Juif Laïc Like a dimly lit room in Odessa, a musical cellar in Saint-Germain or a cabaret on New York’s Lower East Side, the CCLJ is offering ...
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JMI Youth Big Band Live at Jamboree
25 May 2025, 12.30pm at King’s Cross The JMI Youth Big Band, a group of young jazz artists, takes to the stage under the baton of Sam Eastmond, a celebrated conductor who has worked with ...
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Concert by Eléonore Fourniau
21 May 2025, 8.30pm at JEM Copernic Like the klezmer artists of Eastern Europe and the black American artists of the Southern States, music enables Kurdish artists to confront the painful pages ...
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Conference “When Piaf sang klezmer”
5 June 2025 at 7pm at the Rachi Institute of Troyes An astonishing lecture that has the great merit of presenting a little-known aspect of the French musical icon. Do all the paths of the modern ...
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Kleznorth Festival 2025
From 4 to 6 April 2025 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire Klezmer never ceases to enchant musical evenings around the world. With its ancient inspiration, its travels and sharing of styles and fashions, ...
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The Big Mix 2024
On 27 June 2024 Impressive and original musical encounters are planned to herald the summer. The great Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate and the celebrated klezmer accordionist Josh ...
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Klezfest 2024 – Learn, Play and Perform Klezmer
From 18 to 23 August 2024 This year, experienced artists will be joining forces with teachers to share their enthusiasm for klezmer in a variety of ways. Everyone learning, playing and sharing at ...
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Words in celebration: ball, concert and flavours
16 June 2024 at the Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild Dancing again, singing again, sharing culture and laughter, references and memories. A long and wonderful day awaits you, with klezmer ...
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Jazz and klezmer music conference
28 March 2024 at the Institut universitaire Rachi Didier Francfort, university professor and specialist in cultural history at the University of Lorraine, presents the background to and reasons ...
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Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival
From 24 to 31 January 2024 Over the course of a week, a host of events will celebrate the tenth edition of this festival, which this year focuses on Tehilim. These include a guided tour on 24 ...
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Kleznorth Festival
From 5 to 7 April 2024 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire This new annual festival brings together klezmer enthusiasts and professionals to share their enthusiasm for this music, its generosity and its ...
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“Basilic Swing” concert
13 December 2023 at the Centre Fleg Since the klezmer season is eternal, depending on one or two instruments and a desire to find a smile in the face of adversity, the Centre Fleg is organising ...
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Concert by Carl Nelkin
21 November 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Ireland Singer Carl Nelkin performs the repertoire of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, accompanied by pianist Maja Elliott. The Society ...
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Concert “JMI YOUTH BIG BAND – Live at the Vortex”
10 December 2023 at the Vortex Jazz Club of London The JMI Youth Big Band draws its inspiration from a wide range of musical styles, including Jewish music and the jazz of legendary American ...
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“The Big Mix 2023” concert
19 October 2023 at the Galerie Brunei This new edition of the Big Mix is true to its ambition: to showcase contemporary music and London encounters. The evening kicks off with a concert by ...
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“Basilic Swing” concert
October 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm at the Centre Fleg In the spirit of its first back-to-school concerts, the Centre Fleg welcomes back the group Basilic Swing, sharing their klezmer, jazz and gypsy ...
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Golden Peacock 2023 – Sing Yiddish
20-25 August 2023 at SOAS, Russell Square Campus, London The festival is an introduction to, or confirmation of, the public’s enthusiasm for Yiddish music, led by singer/teacher Shura ...
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Lecture by Geneviève Zubrzycki: “Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism and Poland’s Jewish Revival”
February 22, 2023 at the University of Wisconsin, USA The University of Michigan professor analyses how Jewish revival in Poland has been taking place since the beginning of the 21st century. ...
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Kleznorth Festival
From 10 to 12 March 2023 in Youlgrave All North! Klezmer music, born out of the deep and distant celebrations of Eastern Europe, continues its long road of re-enchantment of a contemporary world. ...
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Berlin
Once again the capital of a unified Germany, Berlin today has the largest Jewish community in the country (11 000 people). This is nonetheless far fewer than the some 170 000 Jews who lived here ...
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Yiddishland
The visitor to Eastern Europe hoping to discover a rich Jewish architectural heritage must remember that what was once the center of Judaic cultural and religious life in Europe -principally in ...
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Hungary
At the Jewish Museum of Budapest, a replica of a tombstone dating from the third century bears the image of a menorah. This relic attests to nearly 1700 years of Jewish presence in the Carpathian ...