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Yerushe – Treasures from Yiddish musical archives

This CD, performed by Eléonore Biezunski and her group of musicians, revives an entire repertoire of Yiddish songs that lay dormant in European and American archives …

Somos Los Cigarillos – Klezmer y Salsa

This CD dares the explosive experience of combining Latin and Klezmer klezmer music …

Balkanes Sefarades – The encounter of Judeo-Spanish monodies with Bulgarian polyphonies

This CD mixing Sephardic and Bulgarian cultures offers a renewed and original vision of Judeo-Spanish song …

Vieille chanson, les tranchées, Lumière, Matana, Kinnor, Suite yiddish…

10 new music scores complete the EIJM’s catalog. 2 by Fernand Halphen and 8 by Serge Kaufman

Gala concert of the European Institute ofJewish Music – 2nd edition

Sunday November 6, 2016, 6 pm, Salle Cortot – 78 rue Cardinet, 75017 Paris   The European Institute of Jewish Music is happy to invite you to its great gala …

Simha, l’africain: film screening, meeting and concert

On June 15, 2016 at 7pm, the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives, the FSJU's Direction de l'Action culturelle and the Musée Dapper are hosting a festive evening dedicated to ethnomusicologist Simha Arom, as part of the 2016 Festival of Jewish Cultures …

Release of the film “Mobile Etoile” directed by Raphaël Nadjari (France, 2016)

A film about synagogal music and the difficulty of reviving it. This is the subject of Raphaël Nadjari's latest film, showing in cinemas from Wednesday April 27, 2016 …

COURSE CYCLE: Itinerary of Jewish song in France

The Institut Elie Wiesel, in partnership with the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives, organizes a series of classes given by Hervé Roten on Thursdays, January 7, 14, 21 and 28, …

Kol Nidré, Neshama, Kinah, Tfila, Petite suite klezmer…

Release of twenty scores from Serge Kaufmann by the Editions de l’IEMJ …

Gala concert of the European Institute of Jewish Music

On November 8, 2015, 5:30 pm, Théâtre Adyar - Paris, the EIJM invites you to its Gala Concert, 1st edition. Concert, featuring classical music, klezmer, Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish songs …

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