News
15/12/2022
Michel Heymann has entrusted his entire music archives to the EIJM
On December 7, 2022, Michel Heymann has given to the EIJM his entire musical archives accumulated during his long career as a cantor in Haguenau, Mulhouse and Luxembourg …
10/12/2022
The songs of Chanukah
Discover the most important songs of Chanukah that punctuate the eight days of this Festival of Lights in the very heart of winter …
29/11/2022
Release of 3 new works by the composer Serge Kaufmann
The EIJM’s publishing house is happy to announce the release of 3 new music scores by Serge Kaufmann, Ima ou la Mère dépossédée, Dix duos pour 2 violons et pour 2 violoncelles, still correlated with the world of Jewish music …
14/11/2022
Prayers to the tune of La Marseillaise!
The Jewish liturgy is full of surprises! In 1993, while I was coordinating the activities of the Yuval Association for the preservation of Jewish musical traditions, under the direction of …
14/11/2022
Conference: Synagogal music in Bordeaux: from the Temple of the Rue Causserouge (1812) to the inauguration of the Great Synagogue (1882), by Hervé Roten
Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 2pm at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, Lecture by Hervé Roten as part of the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the Great Synagogue of Bordeaux …
09/11/2022
Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874)
In his thesis, now available in digital version, Gérard Ganvert gives us an indepth study of synagogal music in Paris from 1822 to 1874 …
18/10/2022
KALARASH – KLEZMER MUSIC, YIDDISH AND FRENCH SONGS
This 8th CD of the Discovery Collection gathers klezmer music, Yiddish and French songs by Kalarash, a French group that has been exploring the traditional music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans for 12 years …
28/09/2022
The EIJM ON THE GERMAN NATIONAL RADIO “DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR”
In order to make the work and objectives of the European Institute of Jewish Music known in Rhineland, the German journalist Bettina Kaps visited the Institute in Paris in March …
13/09/2022
Rosh Hashanah Seder among North African Jews
The Rosh Hashanah Night Seder consists of the consumption of symbolic foods - known as simanim (signs) - and the recitation of prayers. This tradition dates back at least 2,000 years and was first celebrated in the communities of the Mediterranean Area …
27/07/2022
Thieves of Dreams – Zloději snů
Upon the recent passing of her mother, Lenka discovered two tattered notebooks of hand-written poetry that her grandmother, Anna Hana Friesová (1901-1987) wrote in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp …