News
04/02/2025
The songbooks of Jewish youth movements
The European Institute of Jewish Music has collected a number of songbooks from Jewish youth movements (EEIF, Histadrut, Youth and Education Department of the Jewish National Fund, etc.)
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27/01/2025
The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) collection
In December 2023, the Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle donated a number of musical documents (records, scores, books, archives, etc.) from its collections to the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives …
25/01/2025
Piano Music by Jewish Composers
This collection of scores, compiled by Bella and Semjon Kalinowsky, includes little-known works by Louis Lewandowski, Joseph Sulzer, Salomon Jadassohn and Joel Engel …
23/01/2025
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme collection
Mostly deposited in April 2022, the collection of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (MAHJ) mainly consists of records, including many rare 78s in an excellent state of preservation …
16/01/2025
Baqqachot
On Saturday mornings in winter, before sunrise, Jews from the Maghreb and the Middle East gather at the synagogue to sing baqqachot, a set of liturgical, sometimes mystical poems …
15/01/2025
Discovering baqqachot
This playlist features recordings of Baqqachot songs from the Yerushalmi and Moroccan traditions …
13/01/2025
Shirat ha-Baqqashot according to the Moroccan rite
Ariel Danan, a skilled connoisseur of baqqashot, traces the history of this liturgical poetry and provides musical examples in the Moroccan tradition …
08/01/2025
Exils
In this intimate album, violinist Elsa Moatti plunges us into her roots, her "inner geography", to deliver an album imbued with resilience, vibrancy and sensitivity …
08/01/2025
Chamber Works by Robert Müller-Hartmann & Frederick Block
The seventh and eighth CDs in the Music in Exile series, Chamber Music by Robert Müller-Hartmann and Chamber Music by Frederick Block, released by Chandos in 2023 and 2024 respectively, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of these two Jewish composers, German and Austrian, who emigrated to England and the USA in the 1930s to escape Nazism …
07/01/2025
Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians: Their History and Culture
Remarkably well-documented, this thousand-page encyclopedia presents the history of the British synagogal music …