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Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, Joseph Kosma

Published by Editions Hortus between 2024 and 2025, these first three volumes of the Voix Etouffées – Missing Voices collection introduce us to little-known or even unpublished works by Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, and Joseph Kosma, three composers who were victims of 20th-century totalitarianism, particularly Nazism and the Holocaust …

du Closel, Amaury (1956-2024)

Conductor and composer Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées (Silenced Voices Forum) and worked tirelessly to revive the music of artists persecuted by Nazi and totalitarian regimes …

MUSICAL TRADITIONS – CHANUKAH, by Hervé Roten

A lecture by Hervé Roten - Monday, December 15, 2025 - On Zoom & Replay. A musical event to celebrate Chanukah with meaning and emotion. …

Ashkenazi Jewish Liturgy – André Stora

Website of André Stora, Cantor who officiated at the Nancy synagogue and an emblematic figure of the Ashkenazi tradition in Alsace-Lorraine, offering downloads of Ashkenazi liturgical scores …

S & P Central

A rich, multilingual website listing the locations, practices, and traditions of the main communities of Spanish and Portuguese Jews around the world …

Piyyut and contemporary Israeli song

Piyyutim (religious poems) have had a significant influence on contemporary Israeli song …

Bible poems & Jewish prayer

These two CDs by Semjon Kalinowsky (viola) and Torsten Laux (organ) invite us to discover—or rediscover—the musical works of some fifteen composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, inspired by Jewish liturgy or the Bible …

Weiss – Psalms and Hymns & The echo of the temple

In March 2025, Polish musicologist and organist Jakub Stefek donated two CDs and a 33-rpm record to the European Institute of Jewish Music. The recordings are the result of his research on synagogue music in Poland and its composers, both past and present …

Music of David Eisenstadt

David Eisenstadt (Dawid Ajzensztadt), conductor, educator, and composer, was born in Nasielsk, Poland, in 1890. He was murdered in Treblinka in 1942 after the Nazis liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto. This 33 RPM record, released in 2024, pays tribute to Eisenstadt by reviving some of his works for the first time …