Radio Eshkolot

How a synagogue cantor (chazzan) can avoid turning prayer into operetta? In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast Gregory Yakerson, the cantor of St. Petersburg Synagogue, reveals the secrets of his art. Download the episode Detailed description Как избежать превращения молитвы в оперетту? В новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot кантор (певчий) Санкт-Петербургской синагоги Григорий Якерсон раскрывает секреты мастерства. Скачать эпизод Подробное описание

Why do Hasidic Jews believe that you can hear Polish and Ukrainian peasants inadvertently speaking Hebrew and Yiddish? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musicologist Hava Shmulevich and musician Ilya Saitanov continue the discussion of "macaronic" language of Jewish songs (see the first episode here). Download the episode Detailed description Почему хасидам постоянно чудится, что польские или украинские крестьяне невольно говорят на еврейском языке? Музыковед Хава Шмулевич и...

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musical critic Alexey Munipov introduces "Bukovina songs" by contemporary composer Leonid Desyatnikov, performed by pianist Pavel Dombrovsky. Inspired by Bukovina – a very unusual "contact zone" between Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish and Romanian cultures – Desyatnikov's preludes reflect his childhood fascination with radio edits of Ukrainian folk songs, transfigured by echoes of Stravinsky, Chopin, Bartok, Webern, Sati and Gershwin. Download...

Why do Hasidic Jews (whose native language was Yiddish, and sacred language of prayer and learning – Hebrew) chose to sing some of their most sacred songs in a Slavic dialect? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast, musicologist Hava Shmulevich and musician Ilya Saitanov discuss the "macaronism" (mixture of languages) in traditional Jewish songs. Download the episode Detailed description Зачем хасидам (родным языком которых был идиш, а языком учености и молитвы – иврит) петь о своих...

In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podacst the Berlin-based contemporary composer Boris Filanovsky conducts a "creative listening" workshop on the slow part of Beethoven's "Ghost Trio" (op.70), performed specially for the workshop by Contemporary Music Company in Peredelkino Creative Space (Moscow). Download the episode Detailed description В новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot современный композитор Борис Филановский (Берлин) проводит практикум "медленного слушания" "Призрачного...

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musician Ilya Saitanov ("Lakocha") tries to unravel a bundle of questions and enigmas around the musical permutations of Itzik Manger's poem "Du vest geyn mitn barg". Download the episode Detailed description В новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot музыкант Илья Сайтанов («Лакоча») пытается распутать клубок вопросов и загадок вокруг песни на слова Ицика Мангера "Du vest geyn mitn barg". Скачать эпизод Подробное описание

Recently New York-based musician Zisl Slepovitch delivered a series of talks on Jewish music of Belarus (bit.ly/2HQA3ms) and together with Ilya Saitanov curated a thematic playlist of rare sound recordings (bit.ly/33wlZpT). In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast ZIsl Slepovitch gives you the answer to the essential question – How one can discern by the sound of Jewish music that it originates from Belarus? Download the episode: http://files.eshkolot.ru/mixtape31.mp3 Detailed...

This playlist curated by the New York-based musician and musicologist Zisl Slepovitch and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) is a prelude to the next episode, which will be devoted to the Jewish music of Belarus. Rare recordings of secular and religious music were mostly made in the field by ethnomusicologists Zinoviy (Susman) Kiselgof, Sofia Magid, Yakov Mazor, Inna Nazina, Dmitry Zisl Slepovitch and Nina Stepanskaya. Download the episode Detailed description 00:06 Kvoyde Moyle Eylom (Shimen...

Meet KGB archives, exclusive interviews and rare recordings in the second and final part of Mitia Khramtsov's and Ilya Saitanov's story of the Soviet Jewish restaurant musicians ("labukhs). You are advised to start listening from the first part, accompanied by the annotated playlist. Download the episode Detailed description Архивы КГБ, эксклюзивные интервью и редкие записи – во второй части подкаста Radio Eshkolot, посвященного советским ресторанным музыкантам-лабухам. Составители и...

As a sequel to their podcast on Jewish music in the Soviet restaurant musicians Mitia Kharmtsov (Dobranoch) and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) offer a curated and annotated playlist of top-10 archival recordings of Jewish "labukh" musicians. Download the episode Detailed description В продолжение своего подкаста о еврейской музыке в советском ресторане музыканты Митя Храмцов ("Добраночь") и Илья Сайтанов ("Лакоча") представляют комментированный плейлист из 10 лучших редких записей еврейских...

Recently opened KGB archives in Ukraine give us a rare glimpse into the Jewish music of the Soviet restaurants – a scene relentlessly thriving in 1970s and 1980s despite persecution. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musicians Mitia Khramtsov (Dobranoch) and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) take us on a journey based on interviews with old labukhs (restaurant musicians) and rare recordings. Download the episode Detailed description Недавно открытые архивы КГБ в Украине проливают...

Why do Mountain Jews of the Caucasus pronounce Hebrew a lot like Yemenites? How does music demonstrate that Mountain Jews came to the Caucasus from Iran? Why do Mountain Jews and Muslims speak the same juhuri language but don't share even one folk song? How does music from Dagestan influence the soundscape of modern Israel? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast Israeli ethnomusicologist, composer and musician Piris Eliyahu talks about musical traditions of his own community and...

Why did the keeper of Berditchev synagogue polish the magnificent chandelier on Sabbath eve and hang himself on it? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast the actress Julia Aug tells a Hasidic story about withering fire, freezing water, generous princes, wise centenarians, and dangerous ideas. Commentary: Uri Gershovich. Soundtrack: Alex Nadzharov, Grigory Sandomirsky, Maria Logofet. Download the episode Detailed description Почему сторож синагоги Бердичева накануне субботы начистил...

How does Kazachok transform Hungarian string instruments into percussion? Where does it arrive in the course of its Odyssey around Greek islands? What did American klezmer musicians do to it? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast, Ilya Saitanov continues his adventurous ethnomusicological journey (for the beginning, see the first part). Download the episode Detailed description Как казачок превращает венгерские струнные инструменты в ударные? Чем заканчивается его одиссея по...

Is Kazachok a melody or a dance? Is Ukranian gopak the same as Ukranian kozachok? And what about Jewish hopke and kozatske? When do Lubavitch hasidim dance Kazachok? All these questions are subjects of endless debate. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast, musician and folklorist Ilya Saitanov in dialogue with his colleague from Ukraine Ilya Fetisov leads us into the thicket of ethnomusicology with a lot of rare musical tracks. Download the episode Detailed description "Казачок" –...

How did the blind Rabbi from Aleppo turn a popular Egyptian song into a Messianic hymn? How did the melody of a blind Iraqi Sufi get to be played by an Israeli musician as an opening for Radiohead? Why do synagogues in Jerusalem recite Kaddish to the melody of an Umm Kulthum song? The new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast is about a quaint relationship of Judaism with Arab music. Detailed description Download the episode 00:10 Lamma bada || Lamma haketz (Haim Louk & David Menachem) 06:18...

"Sleep, sleep, my girl, sleep, sleep, my dear. Daddy will bring you a birdie, so that your eye won't hurt". Why is father always away? How does the bird cure the eye? Why is the singer lisping? What do Yakut songs have in common with a Jewish lullaby? The "slow listening" of a simple Yiddish lullaby with a musician Ilya Saitanov and a philologist Alexandra Polyan leads you into the magic thicket of ethnography, linguistics and musicology. Download the episode Detailed...

One night in November 2019 groups of flâneurs went walking in Berlin. Their impressions were captured in flows of images, audio notes, videos, stories, and a musical piece. Drifters created situations where the once-familiar city became defamiliarized – "Berlin is never Berlin". Composer Alex Nadzharov montaged the Drift sounds into the psychogeographic musical piece "Berlin Drift". This is a sound-route through the city. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast the soundscape of "Berlin...

"You should drink a little vodka, but like a Mensch, not like a Golem" – this line from a Yiddish song incorporates the whole philosophy of Jewish drinking. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musician and folklorist Ilya Saitanov and linguist Alexandra Polyan present the adventurous story of the lyrics and music of the song Az me nemt a bisele bronfn, with ethnographic materials and live performance by Lakocha. Download the episode Detailed description "Немного водки нужно...

"Slow reading is the opposite of close reading and yes I do think that Jewish reading practices can teach us a lot about this kind of reading and that reading is always a call, it's always a call to respond. Only after silent reading is invented does reading become a kind of practice literally and figuratively of masturbation". In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast enfant terrible of Jewish Studies Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley) talks about Slow Reading over a soundscape by...