The EIJM

The EIJM ON THE GERMAN NATIONAL RADIO “DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR”

In order to make the work and objectives of the European Institute of Jewish Music known in Rhineland, the German journalist Bettina Kaps visited the Institute in Paris in March …

Tribute to Patrick Berman

Patrick Berman, a volunteer and the treasurer of the European Institute of Jewish Music, passed away this Sunday, November 7, 2021. …

Article (in Italian) by Gianni DIENA, talking about his collaboration with the EIJM, to make known the Italian Jews in France

Concerned to make known the Italian judaism and its musical traditions, quite unrecognized, Gianni Diena, recently deposited to the European Institute for Jewish Music several documents. Browse his collection In …

Hervé Roten : Digitizing and disseminating the archives

Trad’Magazine N°172 – March-April 2017 – P. 102-103 Download the interview with Hervé Roten – Trad’Mag No. 172 – March-April 2017   …

Concert Baroque Jewish Music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam

On April 14, 2010, nearly 200 people went to the concert “Baroque Jewish Music” in Paris, performed by Les Folastries ensemble, led by David Klein. Organized by the Yuval organisation, …

Diasporique June 2010 : to save Jewish music

An interview with Hervé Roten, Director of the French Center for Jewish Music From purely instrumental klezmer music to chassidic and yiddish songs, from Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Spanish songs to synagogue …

European aura for the Jewish musical heritage

Like the Alliance Israélite Universelle’s library, crucial pour the knowledge of judaism, the new European Institute for Jewish Music is now becoming a preferred location for Jewish music archives in …

“Hervé Roten, le patrimoine à fleur de peau – Et les musiques juives sortirent de l’oubli…”

“It was first on Rue de Bellechasse, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. One day in the spring of 2011, Hervé Roten welcomes you to the European Institute of Jewish …

I24 News – TV report on the release of the CD “Jacques Offenbach and friends”

TV PROGRAM broadcast on I24 News, November 26, 2019, featuring the portrait of Jacques Offenbach, on the occasion of the release of the CD Jacques Offenbach et ses proches - De la synagogue à l'opéra, published by Éditions de l'IEMJ and performed by the ensembles La Truite Lyrique & Les Polyphonies Hébraïques, under the direction of Hector Sabo …

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