16/05/2016
“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 …
16/05/2016
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 …
10/05/2016
Die Drei Kantoren & 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. …
04/05/2016
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 …
04/05/2016
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 …
27/04/2016
Mir Zingen (We sing)
80 songs with music score, translations and transliteration, edited by the MEDEM center Arbeter Ring and the CLEJ in 2016 …
27/04/2016
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 …
26/04/2016
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 …
20/04/2016
Casse-tête yiddish & Inconscient !
The IEMJ recently received two CDs from the band Bekar: Casse-tête yiddish and Inconscient ! Bekar describes itself as performing "pop songs with Yiddish accents." …
13/04/2016
Chants et Emotions
The songs from the Jewish liturgy, Hebrew songs, in live and recorded in studio, by the Polyphonies Hébraïques of Strasbourg and the Ensemble Vocal Hébraïca, gathered in a great two CD box set ! …
