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2002
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Claude Heymann, « Vie communautaire, spiritualité et musique dans la campagne alsacienne. : Le rôle des chantres », Archives Juives, ID : 10670/1.rdy5y1
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The cantors in the alsacian countryside stand for an important aspect of the alsacian rural Judaïsm, which no longer exists to-day. Seen as main notabilities or « easy-going » men among very often small communities, they play the main part in the human organization of these social groups. The cantors may have been the keepers otf a specific liturgical tradition – and as such most criticized by the urban Jews – or they may have been the firts to initiate changes which, respecting the halakha, allow the synagogal surrounding to remain the axis of communautary life. Very often, their artistic renown reaches, beyond the circle of the Jewish community, the local music-loving people.