MBS with a pioneer diva: Shoshana Damari
Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll listen to the voice, naked and raw, of Shoshana Damari, singing a medley of Yemenite poems. Hello, how are you? I hope very…
MBS with the Coplas de Purim by two outstanding hazzanim! Purim sameach! ?
Purim is almost here And this edition is special, because today it is not Friday but Purim starts later today. Let’s enjoy these Sephardic couplets for Purim in two versions: Leo…
MBS with the Polish legacy saved by a Finnish man and brought to us by a British label: from Syrena to Renair
February 19th, 2021. Shabbat is almost here And today we look back to the past again, thanks to the work of Renair Records and their revival of the priceless legacy…
MBS and all roads lead to Poland… or to Yemen. With Olga Mieleszczuk
12th February 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll learn about a woman whose passion led her to devote her life to the Yiddish songs and other sides…
MBS with klezmer from before the World War I. Can you imagine how it sounds? ?
5th February 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll get into the mood with a recording of a piece of klezmer from before World War I, by the…
MBS after Tu B’Shvat, with the Iraqi song for the blooming trees and two legends about Yosef Chaim
29nd January 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And Tu B’Shvat just ended yesterday! Let’s listen to a song about the blooming trees of Iraq, a piyyut by Yosef Chaim,…
MBS with the chazan’s chazan born in a land of shifting borders. Guess who?
22nd January 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll listen to the so called chazan’s chazan, Moshe Koussevitzky, with a piece specifically used by the cantors to initiate the…
MBS with the first commercial Sephardi recording… probably! Haim Effendi is our protagonist
15th January 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll listen to a performer and composer who was recorded in 1908 in a production that vies for the honor of…
MBS with the cultural redeemer for the North African Jews in Israel, Rabbi David Bouzaglo
8th January 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll listen to the payṭan who gave back their cultural identity to the North African Jewish migrants in Israel: Rabbi David Bouzaglo Hello, how…
MBS with a tribute to the musicians: Yossel Der Klezmer, by Theodore Bikel, and Yosl Klezmer, by Lazar Weiner
1st January 2021 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll share Yossel Der Klezmer, sang by Theodore Bikel, and also Yosl Klezmer, the composition by Lazar Weiner. What do they have in…
MBS with the Jewish poet Julian Tuwim, author of “Chrystus”, sang by Janusz Prusinowski. Today it is Christmas and Shabbat is almost here
25th December 2020 – Shabbat is almost here And today we’ll share a very special poem, Chrystus, by Julian Tuwim, poet born in Łódź, Poland, in 1894, sang by Janusz Prusinowski,…
Let’s travel to Quba and join me to dance a Lezginka with the Juhuri
18th December 2020 – Shabbat is almost here And today we travel to discover a very isolated Jewish town: Quba, in Azerbaijan. Hello! How are you? I am with the mood for…