The Collections

Oyfn Veg (en chemin)

An album featuring popular Yiddish songs, harmonized for choir and conducted by Jean Golgevit …

Yiddish Glory

Released in 2018 in USA by Six Degrees Records, the CD Yiddish Glory features 18 Yiddish songs, written by Jews from Soviet Union. Songs that we had thought lost forever …

Purim – Holiday Music Box

Published in 1951 in the United States, this 78 RPM disc features Purim songs for children …

Léon Algazi’s Sacred Service

Léon Algazi's Sacred Service, presented in 1954 by the composer in his liturgical and musical program Écoute Israël, was recorded on 8 pyral 78 RPM discs recently deposited at the EIJM by his grand-daughter Béatrice Algazi. …

Yahudice

CD of Judeo-Spanish songs from Istanbul, Izmir, Thessalonica and Jerusalem. Booklet in English, Turkish, Judeo-Spanish and Hebrew, published in 2003 by KALAN editions, Istanbul …

THE LÉON ALGAZI COLLECTION

Deposited at the Yuval organisation in the 1990’s, then at the EIJM between 2007 and 2020, the Léon Algazi Collection around 600 documents (sheet music, audio files, films, photographies and other various archives) coming mainly from the Algazi family and from the archives of the Grande synagogue de la Victoire …

THE PAUL FENTON COLLECTION

Deposited in January 2019, the Fenton (Shahak) collection contains around 250 documents : rare books, old musical scores, song books, press cuts, audio cassettes, 33 and 78 RPM discs and CD’s …

Mes joyeux compagnons

Since 2010, the band Kalarash has explored klezmer music and music from the Balkans (Romania and Greece) with their string instruments, violin, double bass, tsimbl, and polyglot vocals. …

The Jews in Maghreb through their singers and musicians in the 19th and 20th century

Specialist of Iranian Jewish culture, Alain Chaoulli presents in his book a wide panorama of Judeo-Arab-Andalusian music of the three countries from the Maghreb, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia …

Le Petit Mish-Mash

New CD, released on December 6, 2019 in France, featuring 15 tracks of klezmer, gypsy and Romanian music …

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