Main Holdings

Jacinta Collection

Deposited at the EIJM in May 2022 by the artist, Jacinta's collection includes some forty photographies, from her youth in Argentina to her artistic career in Paris, as well as numerous recordings …

The Peyrotte Collection

Arriving mysteriously by post on January 24, 2022, this collection of 42 manuscript scores from the 1920s from the former USSR is unique …

THE LÉON ALGAZI COLLECTION

Deposited at the Yuval organisation in the 1990’s, then at the EIJM between 2007 and 2020, the Léon Algazi Collection around 600 documents (sheet music, audio files, films, photographies and other various archives) coming mainly from the Algazi family and from the archives of the Grande synagogue de la Victoire …

THE PAUL FENTON COLLECTION

Deposited in January 2019, the Fenton (Shahak) collection contains around 250 documents : rare books, old musical scores, song books, press cuts, audio cassettes, 33 and 78 RPM discs and CD’s …

The JOSEPH SITBON COLLECTION

The Joseph Sitbon Collection includes about twenty 45 RPM records of Oriental music …

THE FEIGELES COLLECTION

This collection gathers 160 documents related to Ashkenazic music, including mainly CD's from Poland …

THE FRIDA AND MOTEK WASERMAN COLLECTION

This holding gathering 33 and 45 RPM discs was donated to the European Institute of Jewish Music by Mme Frida Waserman …

THE JACQUES ARNOLD COLLECTION

The Jacques Arnold collection is mainly composed of audio documents of liturgical music from the Ashkenazic rite …

THE HALPHEN COLLECTION

Since 2006, the EIJM houses the archives of Alice and Fernand Halphen, patrons and musicians, who held in Paris an important music salon between 1900 et 1960 …

THE HECTOR SABO COLLECTION

Choirmaster of the great synagogue of Strasbourg, musical and artistic director of the Jewish Choral of France, Hector Sabo hosted in 2017-2018 a serie of radio broadcasts on Jewish music on Radio Judaïca Strasbourg …

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