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16/03/2026
Nehama Lifshitz Collection
In March 2026, Roza Litay, daughter of singer Nehama Lifshitz (1927–2017), donated a collection of autobiographical materials (photos, archives, etc.) to the IEMJ that document her mother’s role in preserving Yiddish song in Eastern Europe and later in Israel …
06/03/2026
Lifshitz, Nehama (1927-2017)
Born in Lithuania, Nehama Lifshitz was a renowned Yiddish singer …
04/03/2026
International Nehama Lifshitz Vocal Competition
(Vilnius, Lithuania) Annual international competition for classical singers, whose aim is to promote Jewish music in tribute to the Lithuanian soprano of Jewish origin, Nehama Lifshitz …
03/03/2026
Box set – I believe
Released shortly after World War II, I believe is a box set of three 78 rpm records (30 cm, mono), featuring six songs from the Jewish resistance and the ghettos of Eastern Europe …
24/02/2026
Purim songs in Ladino
A selection of Judeo-Spanish songs for the festival of Purim, performed by Joaquín Díaz, Clara Bénitah, Judith Cohen, Raphael Yair El Nadav, Avraam Pereira, Flory Jagoda, Claire Zalamansky, and others …
24/02/2026
Purim songs in Yiddish
A selection of Yiddish songs for the holiday of Purim, performed by Pesach Burstein, Arkady Gendler, Sarah Gorby, Masha Benya, The Bursteins, and others …
19/02/2026
Israeli songs for Purim
A selection of Israeli songs for the Purim festival, performed by Miriam Avigal & Dahlia Amihud, Osnat Paz, The Hadassim village children's troupe, and Yaffa Yarkoni, among others …
18/02/2026
ELEVEN MILLION VOICES
Article by Dr. Philippe Olivier published on the Résonances lyriques website, about the box set Musiques Juives dans le Paris d’après-Guerre (Jewish Music in Post-War Paris) and the work carried out by the IEMJ and Hervé Roten to preserve and promote Jewish music archives …
29/01/2026
MAURICE ELFASSI COLLECTION
On June 25, 2020, Rachel Elfassi donated her late husband's entire archive to the European Institute of Jewish Music. This impressive collection of Eastern music, consisting of 1,143 audio documents (78 rpm records, vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, etc.), videos, photos, and various archives, required nearly four years of inventorying, digitizing, and cataloging work to make it accessible online in the EIJM's collection catalogue …
19/01/2026
Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov & Ernest Kanitz
The fifth and ninth releases in the “Music in Exile” collection, the CDs Chamber Music by Dmitri Klebanov and Chamber Music by Ernest Kanitz, released by Chandos in 2021 and 2025, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of two Jewish composers, one Ukrainian and one Austrian, victims of 20th-century totalitarianism …