The Collections

Tur Malka

Tur Malka is the most recent project of the multi-instrumentist Henri Oppenheim. He transposed the rich musical traditions from the Old world to the New world, through a cycle of original songs, on Yiddish poems from Montreal from the 20th century …

exilio

La Roza Enflorese plays with the Quatuor Alfama to perform a Judeo-Spanish repertoire with polyphonics from the Spanish Renaissance and original compositions by Philippe Malfeyt on Pablo Neruda’s poems …

The musical collection of the synagogue of Metz

Between June and September 2015, nearly 500 musical scores and other documents from the Jewish community of Metz have been digitized by the EIJM, which thus preserves an important part of the French Ashkenazi musical heritage …

“Le silence s’essouffle” – Mort, deuil et mémoire chez les compositeurs ashkénazes

Through the analysis of scholarly (liturgical and secular) and popular repertoires (folk songs, tunes from the Yiddish theaters of Second Avenue, but also songs from the ghettos and camps), this study attempts to understand the way in which music was able to continue to allow the repose of the dead and the return to life of those who had (over)lived …

Présence juive en Alsace et Lorraine médiévales

A reference work by Simon Schwarzfuchs and Jean-Luc Fray on the places of Jewish hetitage in the Alsace-Lorraine region, in the Middle Ages. Preface by Danièle Iancu-Agou …

Die Drei Kantoren & Second Yom Tov

Die Drei Kantoren are, like the name says in German, three cantors, tenor, baritone and bass, who unite their voices in repertoire of chazanut, Israeli songs, Yiddish and Sepharade. …

Mélodies – Prescience, Conscience

4th volume of the collection Musicians and the Great War, the baritone Marc Maurillon accompanied by Anne Le Bozec at Bechstein piano perform pieces by Halphen, Février, Jürgens …

Tsigele-Migele, the tale of the little white kid

THE CD IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE EIJM’S ONLINE STORE : 32 children’s songs and lullabies in Yiddish, sang by Ruth Levin, a beautiful CD for children and adults …

The musical collection of the synagogue of Reims

Between May 2014 and April 2016, nearly 150 hand-written pieces of sheet music from the synagogue of Reims have been collected and digitized by the EIJM. Julianne Unterberger and Hervé Roten present here the history of the community of Reims and its rich cultural life …

Mir Zingen (We sing)

80 songs with music score, translations and transliteration, edited by the MEDEM center Arbeter Ring and the CLEJ in 2016 …

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Bible poems & Jewish prayer

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