THE EIJM
The first center dedicated to the documentation and the resources pertaining to Jewish music in Europe, created in 2006 by the French Judaism Foundation, the Yuval association and the Henriette Halphen Foundation, the European Institute of Jewish Music (EIJM) aims to collect, safeguard and spread the Jewish musical heritage in France and all over the world.
The EIJM’s goals
Collect, safeguard, digitize and catalogue
- Thousands of documents (recordings, sheet music, photos, videos, family and institutional archives…) linked to the Jewish musical heritage
- Two conservation rooms and one digitizing studio in Paris
Give access to the resources to
everyone
- The collections of the Henriette Halphen multimedia library
- The production and provisioning of online pedagogical contents on the EIJM’s website
Make known the Jewish musical heritage
- The organization of concerts and live shows
- The edition and distribution of CD’s and sheet music
- Regular actions among the public
The EIJM’s collections
The Henriette Halphen multimedia library, created with the support of Isabelle Friedman in honor of her mother, is accessible in Paris by appointment only, from Monday to Thursday, from 9AM to 1 PM and from 2PM to 6PM. The EIJM’s collections are rich and diverse: tens of thousands of audiovisual documents, music scores, books, photos, audio archives… The catalogue of the collections is available online on the EIJM’s website, but also on the Rachel network’s websites (associated center to the National French Library) and Europeana.
The EIJM editions
The EIJM contributes to the spreading of Jewish music through the production, the edition and the distribution of CD’s, books and sheet music. The catalogue of the EIJM’s Editions number more than 80 references, among which :
- Approximately 30 CD’s divided in 4 collections: Archives, Classical music, Discovery and Musical Heritage of Jews from France.
- Approximately 50 music scores – unreleased for most of them – by composers such as Fernand Halphen, Serge Kaufmann, Alberto Hemsi, Reynaldo Hahn, Itaï Daniel, or Claudine Movsessian and Martine Vialatte.
All these references are available on the EIJM’s online shop.
Mémoire Radiophonique Juive
Initiated by the European Institute of Jewish Music, the Mémoire Radiophonique Juive program (MRJ) [Jewish Radio Memory] aims to make available to the general public thousands of radio programs broadcast on Jewish radio stations since their creation in 1981.
You can freely listen to programs (in French) about various themes that have been broadcast on:
Radio Judaïca Lille, Radio J, Radio Chalom, RCJ and Judaïques FM (Paris – Ile de France), Radio Judaïca Lyon, Radio Shalom Dijon et Besançon…
Timeline
2006
Creation by the Fondation du Judaïsme Français, the Yuval Association and the Henriette Halphen Foundation
2009
Constitution of the EIJM in association law 1901
2010
Creation of the website
2012
Inauguration of the new premises of the EIJM in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
2013
Creation of the EIJM’s Editions
2015
EIJM’s first gala concert
2018
The EIJM hires its 5th permanent employee
2021
Launching of the EIJM’s new website and of its European network