News
09/05/2023
Launch of the Mémoire Radiophonique Juive program (Jewish Radio Memory)
Initiated by the European Institute of Jewish Music in 2019, the Mémoire Radiophonique Juive (MRJ) (Jewish Radio Memory) program makes available 2000 programs broadcast on Jewish radio stations since 1981. The opportunity to find events, themes and prestigious guests who have marked the history of the Jews of France and elsewhere …
24/04/2023
Musique et musiciens de bal – Isaac Strauss au service de Napoléon III
This book by Laure Schnapper, a musicologist specializing in music in France in the 19th century, allows us to discover the personality and work of Isaac Strauss, a composer of Alsatian Jewish origin who made the great people of this word dance and contributed to the growth and prestige of France under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III …
12/04/2023
Foundation ILMC
Created in 2014, the ILMC Foundation aims to protect and enhance the musical heritage written in concentration camps and other places of military and civilian captivity around the world between 1933 and 1953 and collected by Francesco Lotoro …
22/03/2023
Silent Tears – The Last Yiddish Tango
Set to music by a Grammy-nominated (Yiddish Glory) and award-winning team of musicians, the songs on the album tell the story of unimaginable violence as experienced by women and children during the Nazi occupation of Poland …
07/03/2023
Chamber Works by Alberto Hemsi
This CD, performed by the ARC Ensemble of Toronto, presents the world premiere of a selection of instrumental works by the Sephardic composer Alberto Hemsi …
28/02/2023
The liturgical singing of the Ethiopian Jews: an Israeli destiny
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 7:00 pm, at the "Centre d'Art et de Culture de l'Espace Rachi" (39 rue Broca - 75005 Paris), a musical lecture by Simha Arom and Olivier Tourny, organized by the European Institute of Jewish Music, as part of the 18th edition of the Festival of Jewish Cultures …
20/02/2023
Release of 10 new music scores for voice or choir and piano by Itai Daniel
Among which: Ani Maamin, Khatzi Kaddish, Shalom Rav, Lekha Dodi, Sim Shalom, Shalom Aleikhem, El Male Rakhamim …
14/02/2023
Kalarash ALBUM RELEASE Concert
On March 26, 2023, at 17:30, at the Espace Rachi Guy de Rothschild, Kalarash concert composed of klezmer music, Yiddish and French songs for the release of the album, proposed by the IEMJ, in partnership with the "Centre d'Art et de Culture", …
07/02/2023
CONCERT : SIRBA OCTET
Watch some excerpts from the concert "A Yiddishe mame" given by the Sirba Octet on December 16, 2012 at the Copernic Synagogue as part of the "Music at Copernic" season …
01/02/2023
Tsuzamen – Sirba Octet
This album is a formidable testimony of hope: the hope of the Jews, the Armenians, the gypsies whose repertoires the Sirba Octet wanted to mix so that fraternity is incarnated in music …