Latest Acquisitions

Tur Malka

Tur Malka is the most recent project of the multi-instrumentist Henri Oppenheim. He transposed the rich musical traditions from the Old world to the New world, through a cycle of original songs, on Yiddish poems from Montreal from the 20th century. …

exilio

La Roza Enflorese plays with the Quatuor Alfama to perform a Judeo-Spanish repertoire with polyphonics from the Spanish Renaissance and original compositions by Philippe Malfeyt on Pablo Neruda’s poems. …

“Le silence s’essouffle” – Mort, deuil et mémoire chez les compositeurs ashkénazes

Through the analysis of scholarly (liturgical and secular) and popular repertoires (folk songs, tunes from the Yiddish theaters of Second Avenue, but also songs from the ghettos and camps), this study attempts to understand the way in which music was able to continue to allow the repose of the dead and the return to life of those who had (over)lived …

Présence juive en Alsace et Lorraine médiévales

A reference work by Simon Schwarzfuchs and Jean-Luc Fray on the places of Jewish hetitage in the Alsace-Lorraine region, in the Middle Ages. Preface by Danièle Iancu-Agou …

“Die Drei Kantoren” and “Second Yom Tov”

Die Drei Kantoren are, like the name says in German, three cantors, tenor, baritone and bass, who unite their voices in repertoire of chazanut, Israeli songs, Yiddish and Sepharade. …

Mélodies – Prescience, Conscience

4th volume of the collection Musicians and the Great War, the baritone Marc Maurillon accompanied by Anne Le Bozec at Bechstein piano perform pieces by Halphen, Février, Jürgens... …

Tsigele-Migele, the tale of the little white kid

THE CD IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE EIJM’S ONLINE STORE : 32 children’s songs and lullabies in Yiddish, sang by Ruth Levin, a beautiful CD for children and adults. …

Mir Zingen (We sing)

80 songs with music score, translations and transliteration, edited by the MEDEM center Arbeter Ring and the CLEJ in 2016 …

Modern chasidic music

The EIJM just received the first album of the singer David Simcha, who performs chasidic songs in Hebrew arranged with pop-rock music. …

Discs and sheet music of Enrico Macias !

The main holding of Oriental Music, composed mainly from Maurice Arrouasse’s donations has recently grown with discs and sheet music from Enrico Macias …

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