Tag Archives: Riff Cohen



Category: Shortwave
Posted on May 16, 2014 by Shtetl on the Shortwave| 1 Comment

What was Serge Gainsbourg’s big “Jewish” hit song? Why did Jazz legend Willie “The Lion” Smith speak so much Yiddish? In the mood for some North African trash-pop? Check out this episode of Shtetl on the Shortwave. It’s a music special juste pour toi!

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Posted on July 4, 2013 by Shtetl on the Shortwave| 1 Comment

100 youth came together in Sarajevo to learn and hash out the tough questions at The Muslim Jewish Conference & Matthew Wiviott performs live on Chinese harp from Guzheng Goes POP. And tales of Chassidic rebellion from the author of The Psychosexual Development of the Jewish Heretic.

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Posted on July 2, 2013 by Shtetl on the Shortwave| 1 Comment

Who is your favourite Viennese poet? Josef Weinheber perhaps? Find out why a collective of artist-activists dressed up as art restorers and dug up a monument in his honour causing a stir in their Austrian hometown.

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Posted on June 6, 2013 by Shtetl on the Shortwave| Leave a comment

Transcarpathian-born Anita Doron is the director of a feature film about teen love set in a Native community in Canada. Riff Cohen is an Israeli, French-speaking, North-African pop star. Leah R.Vineberg performs The Marathon of Accommodation.

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Category: music
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Nicolas Roux| 1 Comment

Riff Cohen is French/Israeli/Tunisian/Algerian. Her new album has a North-African trashy-pop thing happening. Read Nicolas Roux’s interview with her in Paris and check out her tunes this Friday on Shtetl on the Shortwave.

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