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Concert Coplas Sefardies – Judeo-Spanish songs by Alberto Hemsi in Hanover

Thursday March 22, 2018 : an event organised by Das Europäische Zentrum für Jüdische Musik and the reformed Jewish community of Hanover, in collaboration with the European Institute for Jewish …

Kyranne (violin, cello, clarinet and piano) / Ikh Gedenk (piano)

Release of 2 new musical scores by Serge Kaufmann at the EIJM’s editions …

The musical instruments in the Bible – between myth and reality: conference by Hervé Roten

On February 12, 2018 at 7h00 pm, conference about the musical instruments in the Bible, by Hervé Roten, at the Institut Universitaire Elie Wiesel in Paris …

French Music Before And After The Great War

This CD presents Fernand Halphen's Symphony in C minor (World Premiere) and Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the left hand, performed by the Orsay Campus Orchestra, conducted by Martin Barral, and the pianist Olivier Herbay …

The Hourglass – A musical voyage through the Jewish soul

This CD presents musical works for cello and piano composed in the first half of the 20th century by Ernest Bloch, Lazare Saminsky, Joseph Achron, Gideon Klein, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Serge Kaufmann …

Gala concert of the European Institute of Jewish Music – 3rd edition

On November 12, 2017, 5:30pm, Salle Cortot - Paris, the EIJM invites you to its Gala Concert. A musical journey to the heart of the Jewish soul proposed by Virginie Constant followed by a world premiere by Denis Cuniot …

Concert “Mélodies hébraïques, un rêve vieux de 3000 ans” (“Hebrew melodies, a 3000-year-old dream”)

June 19, 2017 at 8:30pm at the Archives nationales in Paris (75003). In the footsteps of composers who draw their inspiration from Hasidic, Yiddish or Judeo-Spanish melodies. Sarah Iancu on cello and David Bismuth on piano …

Jewish Music in Paris in the Aftermath of WWII, Elesdisc 1948-1953

Publication in the "Archives" collection of an anthology of 6 CDs of post-war Yiddish cabaret music, based on recordings published by the Elesdisc label between 1948 and 1953, entirely remastered! …

Discovering Jewish music: a conference by Hervé Roten

On May 3, 2017 at 7 pm in the synagogue of Bordeaux, Hervé Roten will hold a conference on Jewish music, illustrated with many audio and video examples, letting us roam through 3700 years of Jewish music …

Marc-Alain Ouaknin invites Hervé Roten on his radio show « Talmudiques » broadcasted on France Culture

Radio Program on April 9 and 16, 2017, from 9h10 am to 9h42 am. The blooming encounters of Jewish traditional songs with French variety gave birth to a very rich musical expression …

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Adolphe Attia Fund

In July 2023, Adolphe Attia donated to the IEMJ a set of photos, programs and concert posters retracing his career…