The Collections

Thadé, une longue histoire d’amour…

Biography of Thadé, Jewish violonist native of Poland …

Klezmer’s Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany

Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish Disneyland" and even "cultural necrophilia." …

Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe

The first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), pianist, conductor and composer …

La fanfare de Bangui

It starts like an adventure's novel : a phone call from the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs offers, in 1963, to a horn player from the radio's symphonic orchestra, to leave for the Central African republic, as part of a cooperation program : the president of Central Africa wants a brass band …

The Maurice Arrouasse Collection

The archives deposited by Maurice Arrouasse, big collector of Oriental music, gather more than 300 audio documents on various medias, from 78 RPM discs to Cd's …

The Dave Cash Collection

Representing approximately 200 documents, the Dave Cash (Louis/Ludwig Slomniker) Collection takes us into the musical atmosphere of the post-war Yiddish cabarets …

Wagner antisemite

Can the greatness of one of the most remarkable musicians of the Western world excuse some positions among the worse that can be ? And moreover : can it justify that we ignore them ? …

Myriam Fuks – Ver bin ikh !

A new CD of Yiddish songs by Myriam Fuks, surrounded with exceptional musicians …

The Collection Jacques Chalude, aka Ben Baruch

This collection gathers discs, sheet music and varied archives (photographies, posters...) tracing back the life and work of Jacques Chalude (1914-1997), who was at first a Yiddish singer known as "Ben Baruch", before becoming a cantor in the synagogue of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth (Paris) …

Three centuries ago – Polina Shepherd

Originary from Kazan in Tatarstan, Polina Shepherd was part of the forerunners of the Yiddish music revival in Soviet Union since the 1990’s …

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Deutsch de la Meurthe, Henry (1846-1919)

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In the music salons of Paris

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Camondo, Isaac de (1850-1911)

Born into an illustrious Italian family of Constantinople bankers who had settled in Paris in 1867, Isaac de Camondo was…