30/05/2017
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 …
01/05/2017
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 …
25/04/2017
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 …
15/03/2017
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 …
06/03/2017
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 …
25/02/2017
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 …
15/02/2017
Klezmer : Music, History and Memory
Publication of the latest study on klezmer music, written by researcher, musician and dancer Walter Zev Feldman …
14/02/2017
Sauvée des cendres (saved from the ashes)
Hélios Azoulay & l’Ensemble de Musique incidentale recreate lost works from music composers of the Holocaust …
01/02/2017
Oy oy oy gevalt ! Jews and punk
The book Oy oy oy Gevalt! published in 2016 in the USA and written by Michael Croland, is an ethnographic study of the relationship between Jews and punks, particularly through music …
19/01/2017
The musical collection of the synagogue of Neuilly (Paris region, France)
On November 1st 2011, the synagogue of Neuilly deposited to the European Institute of Jewish Music all of its musical archives: more than 370 music scores and archives now available for consultation …
