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Gorby, Sarah (around 1900-1980)

Sarah Gorby (her real name was Gorbevitsh) was born around the turn of the century in Kishinev, which then belonged to Tsarist Russia. She was the descendant of a mainly …

Die Drei Kantoren & Second Yom Tov

Die Drei Kantoren are, like the name says in German, three cantors, tenor, baritone and bass, who unite their voices in repertoire of chazanut, Israeli songs, Yiddish and Sepharade. …

Art music, 1st part

A selection of works by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Fernand Halphen, Ernest Bloch, Alexandre Tansman, Kurt Weill,  Alberto Hemsi, and Serge Kaufmann …

Mélodies – Prescience, Conscience

4th volume of the collection Musicians and the Great War, the baritone Marc Maurillon accompanied by Anne Le Bozec at Bechstein piano perform pieces by Halphen, Février, Jürgens …

Tsigele-Migele, the tale of the little white kid

THE CD IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE EIJM’S ONLINE STORE : 32 children’s songs and lullabies in Yiddish, sang by Ruth Levin, a beautiful CD for children and adults …

The musical collection of the synagogue of Reims

Between May 2014 and April 2016, nearly 150 hand-written pieces of sheet music from the synagogue of Reims have been collected and digitized by the EIJM. Julianne Unterberger and Hervé Roten present here the history of the community of Reims and its rich cultural life …

Yiddish Glik

Special broadcast dedicated to the singer Pesachke Burstein. …

Mir Zingen (We sing)

80 songs with music score, translations and transliteration, edited by the MEDEM center Arbeter Ring and the CLEJ in 2016 …

Modern chasidic music

The EIJM just received the first album of the singer David Simcha, who performs chasidic songs in Hebrew arranged with pop-rock music …

Discs and sheet music of Enrico Macias !

The main holding of Oriental Music, composed mainly from Maurice Arrouasse’s donations has recently grown with discs and sheet music from Enrico Macias …