Main Holdings

The Samoun-Szlakman Collection

This collection gathers around 30 discs of Yiddish, liturgical and Israeli music …

The Charlie Rosilio Collection

A 33 RPM disc collection, going from the 1950's to the 1970's …

The musical collection of the synagogue of Metz

Between June and September 2015, nearly 500 musical scores and other documents from the Jewish community of Metz have been digitized by the EIJM, which thus preserves an important part of the French Ashkenazi musical heritage …

The musical collection of the synagogue of Reims

Between May 2014 and April 2016, nearly 150 hand-written pieces of sheet music from the synagogue of Reims have been collected and digitized by the EIJM. Julianne Unterberger and Hervé Roten present here the history of the community of Reims and its rich cultural life …

The disc collection from the French radio RCJ

Deposited in 2014 at the European Institute of Jewish Music, the disc collection of the French Jewish radio RCJ gathers over a thousand documents, mainly 33 RPM discs, from Israeli variety to great works of cantorial art …

The Maurice Arrouasse Collection

The archives deposited by Maurice Arrouasse, big collector of Oriental music, gather more than 300 audio documents on various medias, from 78 RPM discs to Cd's …

The Dave Cash Collection

Representing approximately 200 documents, the Dave Cash (Louis/Ludwig Slomniker) Collection takes us into the musical atmosphere of the post-war Yiddish cabarets …

The Collection Jacques Chalude, aka Ben Baruch

This collection gathers discs, sheet music and varied archives (photographies, posters...) tracing back the life and work of Jacques Chalude (1914-1997), who was at first a Yiddish singer known as "Ben Baruch", before becoming a cantor in the synagogue of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth (Paris) …

The Alberto Hemsi Collection

In July 2004, Mme Myriam Capelluto Hemsi, the widow of the ladino collector and composer Alberto Hemsi (1898-1975), donated her husband’s archives to the EIJM. An exceptional collection which includes original manuscripts from the composer …

The Alexandre Tansman Collection

In 2013, the daughters of the composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Mireille and Marianne Tansman, did us the honour to give to the European Institute of Jewish Music several discs and archive documents from their father, as well as copies of manuscripts, for some of them yet unpublished …

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