08/06/2026
Fun a Velt Vos iz Nishto Mer
This CD, performed by clarinetist Angelo Baselli and accordionist Gianluca Casadei, features more than fifteen Yiddish and klezmer melodies recorded between 1912 and 1914 by Zinovy Kisselgof during Sh. An-ski in the Pale of Settlement (the western region of the Russian Empire) where Jews were confined …
02/06/2026
Exile to Hollywood
This album delves into the Golden Age of Hollywood film music, telling the stories of Jewish composers who were forced into exile in the early 20th century. Featuring works by Korngold, Steiner, Waxman and Rózsa, this CD, performed by violinist Isabelle Durin and pianist Michael Ertzscheid, celebrates music that embodies freedom, cultural fusion, and resilience …
26/04/2026
Jewish Baroque Music
Recorded in 2008 by the Salomone Rossi Ensemble, this CD features 20 iconic pieces of Baroque Jewish music by Salomone Rossi, Carlo Grossi, Avraham Caceres, Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, and Georg Friedrich Händel …
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 …
03/03/2026
Box set – I believe
Released shortly after World War II, I believe is a box set of three 78 rpm records (30 cm, mono), featuring six songs from the Jewish resistance and the ghettos of Eastern Europe …
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 …
19/01/2026
Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov & Ernest Kanitz
The fifth and ninth releases in the “Music in Exile” collection, the CDs Chamber Music by Dmitri Klebanov and Chamber Music by Ernest Kanitz, released by Chandos in 2021 and 2025, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of two Jewish composers, one Ukrainian and one Austrian, victims of 20th-century totalitarianism …
15/01/2026
OSKAR C. POSA (1873-1951) – Lieder, VIOLIN SONATA – STRING QUARTET
Producer Olivier Lalane spent four years of his life tracking down the traces and music of Oskar C. Posa, an Austrian composer who was banned from musical life in 1938, a few days after the annexation of Austria by the Nazis, because he was born Jewish …
11/01/2026
Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, Joseph Kosma
Published by Editions Hortus between 2024 and 2025, these first three volumes of the Voix Etouffées – Missing Voices collection introduce us to little-known or even unpublished works by Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, and Joseph Kosma, three composers who were victims of the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism …
15/10/2025
Bible poems & Jewish prayer
These two CDs by Semjon Kalinowsky (viola) and Torsten Laux (organ) invite us to discover—or rediscover—the musical works of some fifteen composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, inspired by Jewish liturgy or the Bible …
