Main Holdings

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 includes about twenty 45 RPM records of Oriental music …

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