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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 …
15/01/2026
OSKAR C. POSA (1873-1951) – Lieder, VIOLIN SONATA – STRING QUARTET
Producer Olivier Lalane spent four years of his life tracking down the traces and music of Oskar C. Posa, an Austrian composer who was banned from musical life in 1938, a few days after the annexation of Austria by the Nazis, because he was born Jewish …
12/01/2026
Kosma, Joseph (1905-1969)
A composer of Hungarian Jewish origin, Joseph Kosma left his mark on the history of French song and cinema for over 30 years, notably composing nearly 150 songs (Les Feuilles mortes, Barbara, La rue des Blancs-Manteaux, etc.) and 120 film scores (Les visiteurs, Les enfants du Paradis, La grande illusion, etc.) …
11/01/2026
Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, Joseph Kosma
Published by Editions Hortus between 2024 and 2025, these first three volumes of the Voix Etouffées – Missing Voices collection introduce us to little-known or even unpublished works by Arnold Schönberg, Henriëtte Bosmans, and Joseph Kosma, three composers who were victims of the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism …
07/01/2026
du Closel, Amaury (1956-2024)
Conductor and composer Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées (Silenced Voices Forum) and worked tirelessly to revive the music of artists persecuted by Nazi and totalitarian regimes …