Books, articles

Monsieur Rêve et Cie

Released in 2006 at the Chandeigne editions, Monsieur Rêve et Cie is a collection of tales, translated in French, of the great Israeli poetess Lea Goldberg. It also contains a CD. …

Se réinventer au présent

Jessica Roda just published at the Presses universitaires de Rennes Editions a book dedicated to the Judeo-Spanish people of France and their musical heritage …

L’Algérie en musique

L'Harmattan has just published "Algeria in Music". Made from record booklets, this book speaks of all styles of music in Algeria …

Comptines du jardin d’Eden

A beautiful book-disc, published in 2005 by Editions Didier Jeunesse, gathering childrens' songs and lullabies in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and Judeo-Spanish, now available for consultation at the EIJM. …

La synagogue de la Victoire, 150 ans du judaïsme français

This extraordinary book beautifully illustrated was written by twenty specialists. It traces the history of this emblematic place, inseparable of French Judaism …

The Lost Paradise

In February 2016 was published this book that draws ethnographic and archival work to consider the entanglement of materiality, personhood, and temporality in the urban, Arabic-language musical and poetic practice known as Andalusi music …

Klezmer : Music, History and Memory

Publication of the latest study on klezmer music, written by researcher, musician and dancer Walter Zev Feldman …

Oy oy oy gevalt ! Jews and punk

The book Oy oy oy Gevalt! published in 2016 in the USA and written by Michael Croland, is an ethnographic study of the relationship between Jews and punks, particularly through music …

Four and Twenty Fiddlers, The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690

Winner of the 1995 Derek Allen prize awarded by The British Academy for musicology, Four and Twenty Fiddlers gives light for the first time on the history of the origin of the violin in England …

Les Cinq pièces pour orchestre op. 16 d’Arnold Schoenberg

The Aedem Musicae just published a study by Alain Poirier dedicated to the Five pieces for orchestra op. 16 by Arnold Schoenberg. An occasion to plunge into the artistic and cultural context of the year 1909, and to understand this surprising work by Schoenberg …

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