Latest Acquisitions

Djoyas de Mar

New album by the singer Daphné Kritharas, compiling 12 songs in Greek and Judeo-Spanish from the Aegean Sea. Available in the EIJM's online shop …

KIF Orkestra

Release of the first album of the KIF Orkestra, a klezmer brass band led since 2005 by the greatest musicians of the French klezmer stage : Denis Cuniot, Yom, Pierre Wekstein …

Sirba Orchestra !

A collection of the best loved melodies of Cabaret Tzigane and klezmer music, Sirba Orchestra ! is a collaboration between the Sirba Octet, a full symphony orchestra and one of the best balalaika players, Nicolas Kedroff …

Ventanas altas de Saloniki

This double CD, published in 2013 by the university of Haifa, gathers 36 songs that come from the traditional and modern repertoires of the Jews from Salonica. Available in the EIJM's online shop

Voice of the Turtle – A different night

Unusual anthology of the Passover musical repertoire, this record contains in particular several versions of the traditional song "Had Gadya", a song present in the various traditions of the Jewish diaspora …

Coplas Sefardies by Alberto Hemsi – Vol.1

From traditional Judeo-Spanish songs to art music … …

Il gioco delle sorti

Composed by Gilberto Bosco in 2002, with a libretto by Sandra Reberschak, Il gioco delle sorti ("the game of fate" in Italian) is an opera that, like Purim shpil, tells the story of Megillat Esther. This score is now available in our collections …

Tango Ladino, Un sueño

After the albums "A la una yo naci" (Vde-Gallo label) and "Fuente Nueva" (Editions of the EIJM), Keren Esther records her 3rd album, Tango Ladino, Un sueño, with Sefardi songs as well as tangos. …

Mémoire et Cinéma

Ten years after the release of the CD "Romantisme hébraïque", the violinist Isabelle Durin and the pianist Michaël Ertzscheid publish a new record of film music around Judaism and its traditions …

Tape cinq ! – Staïffi et ses Mustafa’s

Albert Darmon, known as Staïffi, has just given to the European Institute for Jewish Music two CDs containing 24 of his most famous songs. …

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