15/10/2025
Bible poems & Jewish prayer
These two CDs by Semjon Kalinowsky (viola) and Torsten Laux (organ) invite us to discover—or rediscover—the musical works of some fifteen composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, inspired by Jewish liturgy or the Bible …
13/10/2025
Weiss – Psalms and Hymns & The echo of the temple
In March 2025, Polish musicologist and organist Jakub Stefek donated two CDs and a 33-rpm record to the European Institute of Jewish Music. The recordings are the result of his research on synagogue music in Poland and its composers, both past and present …
09/10/2025
Music of David Eisenstadt
David Eisenstadt (Dawid Ajzensztadt), conductor, educator, and composer, was born in Nasielsk, Poland, in 1890. He was murdered in Treblinka in 1942 after the Nazis liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto. This 33 RPM record, released in 2024, pays tribute to Eisenstadt by reviving some of his works for the first time …
16/04/2025
Holocaust Songs of the Greek Jews
This book presents for the first time 16 songs written or performed by Greek Jews during or after the Holocaust …
26/03/2025
Michel Heymann Collection
This important archive, donated by the Luxembourg cantor Michel Heymann, consists of several hundred scores, audio and video recordings, and illustrates the transmission of the Ashkenazic cantorial tradition in the Rhine Valley over more than a century …
19/03/2025
Arnold Schoenberg, un musicien juif dans le monde
In the book Musiques, mondialisation et sociétés, published in 2024 by the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, the sociologist Myriam Odile Blin examines the life and work of Schoenberg, the father of dodecaphony, and his relationship to Judaism …
04/03/2025
Farewell to the Homeland Poyln & FleytMusik in Kontsert
In July 2023, American flutist Adrianne Greenbaum presented the IEMJ with two of her CDs - Farewell to the Homeland Poyln and Fleyt Musik in Kontsert - which testify to the importance of the flute in small traditional klezmer ensembles …
03/03/2025
Akh, nit gut!
At the turn of the 20th century, folk music inspired many composers. These included Joel Engel (1868-1927) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), who wrote song cycles inspired by Yiddish folk poetry …
05/02/2025
Histoires de voix hébraïques
Following his first book, Voix hébraïques - Voyage dans la musique juive d'Occident, published in 2020, Hector Sabo offers in this short work a new, more synthetic and accessible approach to Hebrew music. …
04/02/2025
The songbooks of Jewish youth movements
The European Institute of Jewish Music has collected a number of songbooks from Jewish youth movements (EEIF, Histadrut, Youth and Education Department of the Jewish National Fund, etc.)
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