The 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 More than 10 hours of stories and Yiddish music, often unpublished …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 …

ZARA LEVINA – The piano concertos

A beautiful CD joins our collections. Zara Alexandrovna Levina, is born in 1906 in Alexandrovsk (Ukraine), and witnessed two world wars, the Russian revolution, the collapse of the Russian Empire and the totalitarian reconstruction of her land, USSR …

Itsik’s Megilah

Released in March 2015, the Medem Center Arbeter Ring in Paris published the famous Purim Shpil written by the poet Itsik Manger (1901-1969), with lyrics and music score, put on music by Dov Seltzer …

Gesänge aus der Synagogue / Chants of the synagogue

Published in 1997 at Koch Schwann editions, that CD puts under light some compositions for the synagogue for choir and organ written by Isaac and Jacques Offenbach …

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This book presents for the first time 16 songs written or performed by Greek Jews during or after the Holocaust

Michel Heymann and the Ashkenazi liturgy of the Rhine Valley

In the “Life courses” series, Michel Heymann, one of the last representatives of Ashkenazi liturgy in the Rhine Valley, recounts…

Michel Heymann Collection

This important archive, donated by the Luxembourg cantor Michel Heymann, consists of several hundred scores, audio and video recordings, and…

Arnold Schoenberg, un musicien juif dans le monde

In the book Musiques, mondialisation et sociétés, published in 2024 by the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, the…