This two fantastic artists make us feel like being Aheim!
This concert based on a familiar story bring songs that warm our hearts and stimulates our memory for recalling good feelings, the smell of the food, the Cheder, all the atmosphere.
Israeli singer and songwriter Chava Alberstein set out to interview the last writers of Yiddish poetry, to hear their poems and stories. This documentary film follows her journey and features a superb collection of Yiddish folk songs. The film was shot at the same time as the bulk of Boris Sandler’s documentary, “Fridays at Leyvik House” (it can
Halva is the Belgian-German-Latvian ensemble with which Nicolaas Cottenie investigates the links between traditional klezmer music and the many cultures surrounding the Ashkenazim (the Yiddish-speaking Jews in Eastern-Europe): Greek, Hungarian, Turkish and even Western Classical Music. The result is music that breathes a deep energy that invites to dance, with a touch of seriousness and moments of spiritual introspection here and there. It is music that speaks to the mind and the heart. It is music that, despite the myriad of influences, is still very clearly klezmer music, and at the same time is exploring the boundaries of the genre, searching for a fusion between Western and modal concepts of consonance and dissonance.Read More