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Recorded in 2008 by the Salomone Rossi Ensemble, this CD features 20 iconic pieces of Baroque Jewish music by Salomone Rossi, Carlo Grossi, Avraham Caceres, Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, and Georg Friedrich Händel …

The fifth and ninth releases in the “Music in Exile” collection, the CDs Chamber Music by Dmitri Klebanov and Chamber Music by Ernest Kanitz, released by Chandos in 2021 and 2025, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of two Jewish composers, one Ukrainian and one Austrian, victims of 20th-century totalitarianism …

Producer Olivier Lalane spent four years of his life tracking down the traces and music of Oskar C. Posa, an Austrian composer who was banned from musical life in 1938, a few days after the annexation of Austria by the Nazis, because he was born Jewish …

Published by Editions Hortus between 2024 and 2025, these first three volumes of the Voix Etouffées – Missing Voices collection introduce us to little-known or even unpublished works by Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, and Joseph Kosma, three composers who were victims of the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …