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03/11/2015
The Alice and Fernand Halphen Foundation
Created in 1992 under the auspices of the Foundation of France, the Alice and Fernand Halphen Foundation works towards the preservation of Jewish musical traditions. The Foundation supports the actions …
03/11/2015
Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah develops research on issues concerning antisemitic persecutions and the Holocaust, and supports research projects taken by French and foreign scholars. The Foundation …
28/10/2015
Fuente Nueva – traditional Judeo-Moroccan songs
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
This radio broadcast revives Tangier of the 1930's and its « fontaine nouvelle » district where women went to draw water singing very old songs …
21/10/2015
Kol Nidré, Neshama, Kinah, Tfila, Petite suite klezmer…
Release of twenty scores from Serge Kaufmann by the Editions de l’IEMJ …
20/10/2015
Become a patron
The European Institute for Jewish Music‘s goal is the development and the deepening of studies and knowledge of the Jewish musical heritage of France. It is essential that everyone perceives …
20/10/2015
Becoming a member
The European Institute of Jewish Music unites all who value promoting the Jewish musical heritage of France, under the auspices of ethnomusicologist Hervé Roten. …
20/10/2015
Standing on the shoulders of Sholem Aleichem
During a trip through Europe between September 2013 and February 2013, Jean-Gabriel Davis met young people involved in the renewal of Yiddish culture in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Romania. …
20/10/2015
Chekhov’s Band – Eastern European Klezmer music from the EMI archives 1908-1913
Coming with a tremendously rich booklet, a true historical and ethnomusicological essay, this CD released in September 2015 features archive recordings, unpublished until now, and absolutely breathtaking …
20/10/2015
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel’s Lemberg Yiddish Theater, 1906-1910
Gimpel’s Yiddish theater of Lemberg was the first permanent Yiddish theater in Europe. Several 78 RPM discs of songs from this theater were recorded between 1906 and 1910. This CD, produced by Julian Futter and Michael Aylward, restored it for our pleasure …
19/10/2015
Shir Hodu – Jewish Songs from Bombay of the ’30s
“Shir Hodu” means in Hebrew “Song of India”. It also means “Song of praise”. This anthology features for the first time on a CD the most famous Indian singers from Bombay, in a historical performance of the 1930’s …