The Collections

Songs and Prayers of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipour

Release of a CD that puts together the traditional melodies of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipour sung by Hélène Blajan accompanied by a man’s choral led by Maurice Benhamou …

The Undying Flame

A collection 110 songs in 16 different languages, written during World War II, joined with a CD, now available for consultation at the EIJM …

Le rêve du monde (The dream of the world)

Issued in 2010 by INA Mémoire Vive, this CD dedicated to composer and performer Olivier Greif is part now of the EIJM's collections. …

The Sillamy Collection

A collection of very rare discs, field recordings, press clips, books and photographies …

Trésors du cinéma yiddish [Treasures of Yiddish cinema]

4 emblematic films of Yiddish cinema, made mainly in Poland, Russia and the USA between 1930 and 1950. More than 10 hours of stories and Yiddish music, often unpublished …

Sofia Falkovitch Cantor

For the first time in France, Jewish sacred music is sung by a female cantor accompanied by a chamber orchestra. The primary aim of the artist Sofia Falkovitch is to pass on and share her love for these musical treasures inherited from previous generations. …

To The Tavern

The EIJM's latest acquisition. This new CD brings you klezmer at its most beguiling and seductive. The subtleties of the original tradition, combined with a kick-the-chairs-over ability to party …

La synagogue de la Victoire, 150 ans du judaïsme français

This extraordinary book beautifully illustrated was written by twenty specialists. It traces the history of this emblematic place, inseparable of French Judaism …

The Jean Bécache Collection

Rare document collection containing old manuscript scores, original or liturgical compositions from Algeria, audio cassettes and writings on Arabic music theory …

The Lost Paradise

In February 2016 was published this book that draws ethnographic and archival work to consider the entanglement of materiality, personhood, and temporality in the urban, Arabic-language musical and poetic practice known as Andalusi music …

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