16/03/2026
Nehama Lifshitz Collection
In March 2026, Roza Litay, daughter of singer Nehama Lifshitz (1927–2017), donated a collection of autobiographical materials (photos, archives, etc.) to the IEMJ that document her mother’s role in preserving Yiddish song in Eastern Europe and later in Israel …
29/01/2026
MAURICE ELFASSI COLLECTION
On June 25, 2020, Rachel Elfassi donated her late husband's entire archive to the European Institute of Jewish Music. This impressive collection of Eastern music, consisting of 1,143 audio documents (78 rpm records, vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, etc.), videos, photos, and various archives, required nearly four years of inventorying, digitizing, and cataloging work to make it accessible online in the EIJM's collection catalogue …
26/03/2025
Michel Heymann Collection
This important archive, donated by the Luxembourg cantor Michel Heymann, consists of several hundred scores, audio and video recordings, and illustrates the transmission of the Ashkenazic cantorial tradition in the Rhine Valley over more than a century …
27/01/2025
The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) collection
In December 2023, the Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle donated a number of musical documents (records, scores, books, archives, etc.) from its collections to the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives …
23/01/2025
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme collection
Mostly deposited in April 2022, the collection of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (MAHJ) mainly consists of records, including many rare 78s in an excellent state of preservation …
18/11/2024
Raphael Elfassy collection
In 2022 and then 2024, Christine Dangremont and Josiane Sberro donated to the IEMJ the archive of Raphael Elfassy (1939-2019), synagogue choirmaster, founder of the Ensemble de Musique Hébraïque de Paris, teacher and publisher of several discs of Jewish music …
10/11/2024
Adolphe Attia Collection
In July 2023, Adolphe Attia donated to the IEMJ a set of photos, programs and concert posters retracing his career as a cantor, to add to his archive of over 250 documents …
24/05/2022
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 …
26/02/2020
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 …
12/02/2020
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 …
