Latest Acquisitions

Oyfn Veg (en chemin)

An album featuring popular Yiddish songs, harmonized for choir and conducted by Jean Golgevit …

Yiddish Glory

Released in 2018 in USA by Six Degrees Records, the CD Yiddish Glory features 18 Yiddish songs, written by Jews from Soviet Union. Songs that we had thought lost forever …

Yahudice

CD of Judeo-Spanish songs from Istanbul, Izmir, Thessalonica and Jerusalem. Booklet in English, Turkish, Judeo-Spanish and Hebrew, published in 2003 by KALAN editions, Istanbul …

Mes joyeux compagnons

Since 2010, the band Kalarash has explored klezmer music and music from the Balkans (Romania and Greece) with their string instruments, violin, double bass, tsimbl, and polyglot vocals. …

The Jews in Maghreb through their singers and musicians in the 19th and 20th century

Specialist of Iranian Jewish culture, Alain Chaoulli presents in his book a wide panorama of Judeo-Arab-Andalusian music of the three countries from the Maghreb, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia …

Le Petit Mish-Mash

New CD, released on December 6, 2019 in France, featuring 15 tracks of klezmer, gypsy and Romanian music …

Jacques OFFENBACH

Illustrated biography, released in October 2019 by Editions Bleu Nuit, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) …

Decile a mi Amor

These recordings are a tribute to the rich musical tradition of the Sephardim from Tetuan, under the direction and based on the research of the Israeli ethnomusicologist Susana Weich-Shahak, and supported by The Salonika and Greece Jewry Heritage Center …

Commando Musik

Book written by Willem de Vries, released in October 2019 by Buchet-Chastel Editions, in which are described the process of pillage and dispossession organized by the nazi regime, through the special commando, the Sonderstab Musik, eager to eliminate all mark of Jewish musical culture in Europe …

Musiques dans les camps nazis

With a frightening description of the nazi concentration camp system, Bruno Giner shows how music can be deflected in order to profit the lowest instincts and absolute horror. A salutary book against the banality of evil …

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A musical and gastronomic conference by Hervé Roten, director of the European Institute of Jewish Music

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This original score was composed for the YWAM-Copernic Talmud Torah Children's Choir, directed by conductor Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut. Graciane Finzi composed…

Cantata Shma Kolenu by Itaï Daniel, finally available on score!

The European Institute of Jewish Music publishes the Cantata Shma Kolenu, a major work by ltaï Daniel, for 4-part choir,…

Release of six new scores by Serge Kaufmann

The European Institute of Jewish Music publishes six new compositions by Serge Kaufmann, including Kaddish for solo cello and Parade…