The Collections

Balabosta

In Yiddish, the Balabosta is the housekeeper, the women who cooks the gefilte fish for the family, who knits the thread of tradition and heritage. The Balabosta trio tells the story of the klezmer music heritage …

Alpen klezmer

The CD Alpen Klezmer was born with the observation that the Yiddish and Bavarian traditions have certain songs in common. The singer Andrea Pancur gathered many musicians around her in this original project to restore klezmer music from the mountain pastures …

A COLLECTION OF 9 CD’S PUBLISHED BY THE EUROPAÏSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR JÜDISCHE MUSIK (EZJM) IN HANOVER

Founded in 1988 by Andor Izsák, the Europaïsches Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (EZJM) in Hanover published around 10 CD’s, mainly music for choral and organ, featuring in particular works by Louis Lewandowski, Ernest Bloch, Alberto Mizrahi …

Les Yiddishe Mamas et Papas

Created in 1996 in Strasbourg, the band Yiddishe Mamas et Papas offer us an explosive cocktail of Jazz, Twist, Charleston... sung in Yiddish …

Le Passant du pont de l’Europe : Charles-Valentin Alkan, entre tradition et modernité

A book written by Anny Kessous Dreyfuss who makes us discover Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer, virtuoso, pedagogue, whose several works are related to Jewish tradition …

Klezmanouche

Klezmanouche - with the singer Astrid Ruff - offers a meeting between « klezmer » music (Jewish music from the Yiddishland) and Gypsy jazz …

The Alexandre Tansman Collection

In 2013, the daughters of the composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Mireille and Marianne Tansman, did us the honour to give to the European Institute of Jewish Music several discs and archive documents from their father, as well as copies of manuscripts, for some of them yet unpublished …

KANTIGA ALTELI – JUDEO SPANISH SONGS

The four musicians forming the band Kantiga Alteli perform Judeo Spanish melodies, mixing ancient and new, written and spoken, East and West …

Yubka

In this CD called Yubka, beautifully perfomed by the clarinetist Samuel Berthod, with Gabriel Androne on the accordion and Frédérik Fraysse on the double bass, the composer Jean-Pierre Stora offers …

JEWISH SINGERS FROM MOROCCO

This CD features remasterized recordings from the most famous Jewish singers from Morocco, from 1934 to 1985, from Zohra al Fàsiyya to Esther Elfasi, Raymonde, Cheikh Mwijo, Jo Amar, Boutboul, Samy Elmaghribi, Pinhass Cohen …

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Kosma, Joseph (1905-1969)

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