The collections

The collections of the European Institute of Jewish Music (EIJM) are available to all from the Halphen multimedia library in Paris or online with the Rachel catalogue. Associated center to the National French Library (BNF), Rachel is the collective catalogue of the European network of Judaica and Hebraica libraries. It was created in 2004 by the Alliance Israélite Universelle’s library, the Maison de la culture yiddish – Medem Library and the Library of the Séminaire Israélite de France.

Located in Paris 13, the Henriette Halphen media library is open to the public from Monday to Thursday by appointment.

The online catalogue provides access to over 80,000 recordings of Jewish music, 380,000 pages of sheet music, 1,000 books,…

The EIJM digitized and archived Main Holgings.

Focus on some treasures of our collections (CDc, books, sheet music) to deepen the encounter with Jewish music

Our latest acquisitions

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…

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…

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…

Bible poems & Jewish prayer

These two CDs by Semjon Kalinowsky (viola) and Torsten Laux (organ) invite us to discover—or rediscover—the musical works of some…