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16/04/2025
Holocaust Songs of the Greek Jews
This book presents for the first time 16 songs written or performed by Greek Jews during or after the Holocaust …
27/03/2025
Michel Heymann and the Ashkenazi liturgy of the Rhine Valley
In the “Life courses” series, Michel Heymann, one of the last representatives of Ashkenazi liturgy in the Rhine Valley, recounts his 50-year career as a cantor in the Alsatian and Luxembourg communities …
26/03/2025
Michel Heymann Collection
This important archive, donated by the Luxembourg cantor Michel Heymann, consists of several hundred scores, audio and video recordings, and illustrates the transmission of the Ashkenazic cantorial tradition in the Rhine Valley over more than a century …
19/03/2025
Arnold Schoenberg, un musicien juif dans le monde
In the book Musiques, mondialisation et sociétés, published in 2024 by the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, the sociologist Myriam Odile Blin examines the life and work of Schoenberg, the father of dodecaphony, and his relationship to Judaism …
04/03/2025
Farewell to the Homeland Poyln & FleytMusik in Kontsert
In July 2023, American flutist Adrianne Greenbaum presented the IEMJ with two of her CDs - Farewell to the Homeland Poyln and Fleyt Musik in Kontsert - which testify to the importance of the flute in small traditional klezmer ensembles …
03/03/2025
Akh, nit gut!
At the turn of the 20th century, folk music inspired many composers. These included Joel Engel (1868-1927) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), who wrote song cycles inspired by Yiddish folk poetry …
27/02/2025
Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski (1918-2019) – The last klezmer of Galicia
This article by Polish musicologist Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka introduces us to the life and work of Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski (1918-2019), one of Galicia's last klezmer musicians …
05/02/2025
Histoires de voix hébraïques
Following his first book, Voix hébraïques - Voyage dans la musique juive d'Occident, published in 2020, Hector Sabo offers in this short work a new, more synthetic and accessible approach to Hebrew music. …
04/02/2025
The songbooks of Jewish youth movements
The European Institute of Jewish Music has collected a number of songbooks from Jewish youth movements (EEIF, Histadrut, Youth and Education Department of the Jewish National Fund, etc.)
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27/01/2025
The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) collection
In December 2023, the Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle donated a number of musical documents (records, scores, books, archives, etc.) from its collections to the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives …