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!
Tag Archives: Riff Cohen
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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Tagged Dan Bern, Flory Jagoda, Guzheng Goes POP, history, Ilja Sichrovsky, Inter-faith, Jewish, Matthew Wiviott, Muslim, Muslim Jewish Conference, Nazi, Osheaga, Riff Cohen, Susan Moss, Vienna
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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Tagged Austria, Dan Bern, Eduard Freudmann, Flory Jagoda, history, Holocaust, Joseph Weinheber, Mor Karbasi, Nazi, Riff Cohen, Tatiana Kai-Browne, Vampire Weekend, Vienna
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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Tagged feminist art, film, Indigenous Shtetl, Israel, Leah R. Vineberg, music, North Africa, Paris, pop, Riff Cohen, theatre, women
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.
