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Eshkolot Project

"Niggun, a Hasidic song without words, is like a very powerful virus. Because the moment you hear it – you have to catch it. If you have to sit there thinking about it, it doesn't work. The niggunim work by having a structure, which you can learn very quickly, if you just try to sing it" – explai...

A hundred years ago Weimar Berlin became a global migration hub, a multilingual marketplace, exploding with artistic, technological and social innovation amidst economic crises and decadent nightlife. The latter was dominated by cabaret and dance-hall music created by Jewish composers Mischa Spol...

Fortuna Records is a Tel Aviv label famous for its discovery and re-issue of rare and forgotten recordings of Middle Eastern folk and pop music of the 1970s – from Egyptian classics to Palestinian folk, from Greek-Israeli rock to Turkish funk. Fortuna Records DJs unveil hidden soundscapes on the ...

Haim Louk was born in Casablanca (the same year as the movie) and for many decades he has performed songs embodying the wandering of Jewish music from Gibraltar to Bosporus. His tunes reflect the rich diversity of musical traditions of Muslim Mediterranean, merging Berber, Hebrew and Arabic influ...

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 ...

Yiddish skomorokh-trickster, vagrant philologist, Grammy nominee Psoy Korolenko is a unique example of living Jewish counter-culture – culture of shameless appropriation, burlesque multilingualism, carnivalesque obscenity and translation against all rules. Radio Eshkolot has collected its best re...

Igor Krutogolov's Toy Orchestra is an Israeli band which uses children toys instead of "real" instruments. Its music and musicians are highly professional, so that plastic cow-mooing piano, toddler's drums, disposable clarinets and rubber pigs can magically play sophisticated folk, rock and heavy...

Alcoholism is the distinction and privilege of being human (Leon Trotsky)In spite of a common misconception that "Jews don't drink as much as others", often combined with an anti-Semitic libel that "Jews profit from inebriating the common folk", Jewish spirituality is deeply associated with disti...

Как украинский танец связан с желанием удержать Финляндию в составе России? Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов продолжает разбираться в бесконечных превращениях мелодии украинского танца "Карапет", которую все, включая украинцев, считают чужой. Скачать эпизодПодробное описаниеПредыдущий эпизо...

Музыковед Михаэль Лукин и музыкант Илья Сайтанов "медленно читают" мистические напевы без слов из пограничной Галиции, обращаясь к этнографическим записям и к недавнему концерту группы "Лакоча". Скачать эпизодeshkolot.online/podcast/podcast-41 Musicologist Michael Lukin and musician Ilya Saitanov...