The Collections

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 …

Klezmer : Music, History and Memory

Publication of the latest study on klezmer music, written by researcher, musician and dancer Walter Zev Feldman …

Sauvée des cendres (saved from the ashes)

Hélios Azoulay & l’Ensemble de Musique incidentale recreate lost works from music composers of the Holocaust …

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 …

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 …

The musical collection of the Great Synagogue of La Victoire (Paris, France)

Preserved and digitized by the EIJM, these archives represent the largest collection of Ashkenazi liturgical music in France …

Four and Twenty Fiddlers, The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690

Four and Twenty Fiddlers gives light for the first time on the history of the origin of the violin in England. An origin marked by the presence of Sephardic Jewish musicians from Venice …

Jewish music

From purely instrumental klezmer music to chassidic and yiddish songs, from Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Spanish songs to synagogue and art music, the spectrum that Jewish music covers is wide and diverse. …

D’or et de lumière – Or Vezahav – Music for celebrations

With this new CD, the le Baroque nomade, led by par Jean-Christophe Frisch, goes all around the Mediterranean Sea, and takes us on a journey through the Jewish holidays, from Rosh Hashanah to Purim... …

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Exile to Hollywood

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Judeo-Spanish Song: Between Oral Tradition and Artistic Composition

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