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04/03/2025
Farewell to the Homeland Poyln & FleytMusik in Kontsert
In July 2023, American flutist Adrianne Greenbaum presented the IEMJ with two of her CDs - Farewell to the Homeland Poyln and Fleyt Musik in Kontsert - which testify to the importance of the flute in small traditional klezmer ensembles …
03/03/2025
Akh, nit gut!
At the turn of the 20th century, folk music inspired many composers. These included Joel Engel (1868-1927) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), who wrote song cycles inspired by Yiddish folk poetry …
27/02/2025
Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski (1918-2019) – The last klezmer of Galicia
This article by Polish musicologist Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka introduces us to the life and work of Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski (1918-2019), one of Galicia's last klezmer musicians …
05/02/2025
Histoires de voix hébraïques
Following his first book, Voix hébraïques - Voyage dans la musique juive d'Occident, published in 2020, Hector Sabo offers in this short work a new, more synthetic and accessible approach to Hebrew music. …
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 …