After twenty-five years of touring, eighteen hundred concerts on five continents, eight albums, Eric Slabiak, founder of Les Yeux Noirs, begins a musical adventure in 2020 with Josef Josef, his new group of five musicians.Gypsies, Manouches, Gypsies. So many names that suggest festive tunes. The music of the Tarafs of the Eastern countries is pointing its nose. Yiddish folklore blends in with ...
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Klezfest 2021
Join the world famous music school and learn klezmer this summer at KlezFest 2021. Here is a a peek into what you can expect: Traditional klezmer; history, melodies, ornamentation, dance and accompaniment Play music in ensembles and delve into improvisational techniques Interpret scores, jam and perform to the public. Hands-on tutoring from world leading experts. Jam sessions every night ...
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Established in 1794, Odessa was captured by Admiral de Ribas from the Turks for Empress Catherine II of Russia. The city developed rapidly during the nineteenth century, largely due to the arrival of colonists from “New Russia”. It soon became a melting pot of Russians, French, Armenians, Poles, Greeks, Moldavians, and Jews. Forbidden to reside in Saint Petersburg, Moscow or Kiev, ...
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Once again the capital of a unified Germany, Berlin today had the largest Jewish community in the country (11000 people). This is nonetheless far fewer than the some 170000 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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