19/07/2023
PERPETUEL KLEZMER – DENIS CUNIOT
Along with jazz, Klezmer music became involved in the everlasting movement of evolution and creation of the 1980s. In France, Denis Cuniot took and active part in its rediscovery …
24/04/2023
Musique et musiciens de bal – Isaac Strauss au service de Napoléon III
This book by Laure Schnapper, a musicologist specializing in music in France in the 19th century, allows us to discover the personality and work of Isaac Strauss, a composer of Alsatian Jewish origin who made the great people of this word dance and contributed to the growth and prestige of France under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III …
22/03/2023
Silent Tears – The Last Yiddish Tango
Set to music by a Grammy-nominated (Yiddish Glory) and award-winning team of musicians, the songs on the album tell the story of unimaginable violence as experienced by women and children during the Nazi occupation of Poland …
07/03/2023
Chamber Works by Alberto Hemsi
This CD, performed by the ARC Ensemble of Toronto, presents the world premiere of a selection of instrumental works by the Sephardic composer Alberto Hemsi …
01/02/2023
Tsuzamen – Sirba Octet
This album is a formidable testimony of hope: the hope of the Jews, the Armenians, the gypsies whose repertoires the Sirba Octet wanted to mix so that fraternity is incarnated in music …
09/01/2023
Recording History
A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization …
27/12/2022
The concert posters of Jacques Chalude, known as Ben Baruch
Donated to the IEMJ in 2015 by his son Joël Chalude, the archive of Jacques Chalude, known as Ben Baruch, includes more than 440 documents, including nearly a hundred concert posters and press clippings from the 1930s to 1980 …
09/11/2022
Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874)
In his thesis, now available in digital version, Gérard Ganvert gives us an indepth study of synagogal music in Paris from 1822 to 1874 …
27/07/2022
Thieves of Dreams – Zloději snů
Upon the recent passing of her mother, Lenka discovered two tattered notebooks of hand-written poetry that her grandmother, Anna Hana Friesová (1901-1987) wrote in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp …
25/05/2022
Oras Dezaoradas – Lily Henley
In this CD, the American singer and fiddler Lily Henley revisits the Judeo-Spanish songs of her childhood, drawing on her experience in folk music …
