The Collections

The JOSEPH SITBON COLLECTION

The Joseph Sitbon Collection includes about twenty 45 RPM records of Oriental music …

Commando Musik

Book written by Willem de Vries, released in October 2019 by Buchet-Chastel Editions, in which are described the process of pillage and dispossession organized by the nazi regime, through the special commando, the Sonderstab Musik, eager to eliminate all mark of Jewish musical culture in Europe …

Musiques dans les camps nazis

With a frightening description of the nazi concentration camp system, Bruno Giner shows how music can be deflected in order to profit the lowest instincts and absolute horror. A salutary book against the banality of evil …

Métamorphose des mélodies

Double album of Hebrew and Yiddish songs, performed by Michèle Tauber, accompanied by Laurent Grynszpan on the piano …

Giacomo Meyerbeer

This new volume from the Horizons collection, released in february 2017 by the Editions Bleu Nuit, offers us to meet a master of the French “Grand Opera”, forsaken and misknowned. …

Simkhat Hanefesh – Early Yiddish Music

This beautiful CD released in Germany in 2017, features ashkenazi songs from the Renaissance and the baroque era, sung in Western Yiddish …

George Enescu – Musica de Camera, vol. VIII

Eighth volume of the complete edition of George Enescu’s works, this sheet music is dedicated to the composer’s chamber music. Published at the Salabert Editions in 2014 by the Romanian …

The “Nocturne Ville d’Avrayen” by George Enescu (1881-1955)

An original score from the composer George Enescu, dedicated to Fernand Halphen, rediscovered in the archives of the EIJM …

Chanukah in Song and Story

Discover two 78 rpm records from the 1950s, containing Chanukah songs and prayers performed by Seymour Silbermintz …

Hebrew songs for children – Sabbath songs for children

Published in New-York at the beginning of the 1950's, these boxes feature Hebrew songs and Shabbat songs for children, performed and accompanied on piano by Seymour Silbermintz …

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