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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 advanced learners of all ages, with renowned Yiddish teacher Khayele Beer and a team of teachers working alongside her. Masterclasses will include concerts, films and discussions on the contemporary ...
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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 an astonishing evening of music. A mix of enthusiasm and influences. Israeli and French songs and sounds of world music. With, of course, a touch of klezmer, in the good-natured spirit of Belgian ...
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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 John Zorn among others. Founder of the Spike Orchestra, this trumpeter and composer has long been a talented blender of jazz, klezmer, rock and other sounds, since the release of the album Ghetto in ...
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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 of history and to fight for the sharing of a culture. Kurdish music, like its people, is shared in its diversity across the territory where this population lives between four countries (Turkey, Iran, ...
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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 era go hand in hand with klezmer and/or jazz for a few notes to restore joy and hope? These are the questions that Nathan Kuperminc, Didier Francfort and an accordionist are likely to raise, as well ...
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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, but also with the joy it brings, especially in worrying times. This magnificent festival gives participants the chance to get together for a few days and learn more about klezmer, but also, and above ...
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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 Middleton join forces for a unique collaboration, blending their styles and inspirations. Next up is the quartet of Israeli singer and dancer Noga Ritter, with music inspired by Hebrew jazz and grooves from ...
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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 their own pace and level. In small ensembles of artists specially created for the occasion. Although a certain level of instrumental playing is required. It’s time to klezmerise your ...
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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 dance workshops, meetings and conferences, including association stands. There will also be book signings and a round-table discussion moderated by Lise Amiel-Gutmann. And to convince you, a klezmer ...
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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 for the musical encounter between these two worlds, jazz and klezmer. The former is mainly a music created by black Americans and the latter is rooted in the musical tradition of Yiddishland. Since the ...
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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 January to find out more about Jewish life in Basel in days gone by. There will also be a lecture by musicologist Edwin Seroussi at Basel University on 29 January. And, of course, concerts. Tehillim – ...
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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 sharing. The festival takes place in the beautiful village of Youlgrave, a place that combines inspiration from nature with a reappropriation of time. KlezNorth | A festival of Klezmer music, dance and song
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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 this concert by the group Basilic Swing. An evening to celebrate Hanukkah by blowing out candles to the rhythms of jazz, klezmer and gypsy music. Centre Edmond Fleg Marseille – Rentrée Musicale : ...
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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 was founded in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of composers who wanted to preserve Jewish folk music while creating a special genre of Jewish classical music. This original idea ...
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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 bands. The ensemble is made up of many artists, leaving plenty of room for initiation and improvisation. Further proof, if proof were needed, of this cultural capacity to give the best of oneself in the ...
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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 Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate and klezmer accordionist Josh Middleton, blending West African and East European influences. The evening continues with the quartet of Noga Ritter and her fusion of ...
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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 influences. This quintet from Marseilles will take its audience on a journey between traditional European music and American jazz. Centre Edmond Fleg Marseille – Concert : “Basilic ...
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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 Lipovsky, assisted by Rachel Weston and Joseph Finlay. The five-day event will include theory and repertoire studies, master classes and training for Yiddish choristers. Artists and amateurs of all levels, ...
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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. This is largely driven by a non-Jewish population interested in the history of the Jews in this country, its great moments and dark hours. But also through an appreciation of klezmer music and ...
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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. After its successes in Western Europe and North America, it is now travelling to the north of England, on the occasion of the Kleznorth Festival, created in 2009 by Sue Cooper, Adrian Dobson and ...
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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 just before Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. One can well imagine that the ghosts of history will wander in Berlin for a long time to come, a city that, like Vienna, was a major economic, ...
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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 Lithuania between the eighteenth century and the Shoah- had disappeared beyond ruins and cemeteries. The complete eradication of a Jewish presence, the sworn objective of the Nazis, was conducted with ...
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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 basin, predating that of the Magyar tribes who broke free from the confines of the Ural Mountains during the ninth century. The modern history of Judaism in Hungary goes all the way back to ...
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