26/06/2017
Trésors du cinéma yiddish [Treasures of Yiddish cinema]
4 emblematic films of Yiddish cinema, made mainly in Poland, Russia and the USA between 1930 and 1950. More than 10 hours of stories and Yiddish music, often unpublished …
22/06/2017
Sofia Falkovitch Cantor
For the first time in France, Jewish sacred music is sung by a female cantor accompanied by a chamber orchestra. The primary aim of the artist Sofia Falkovitch is to pass on and share her love for these musical treasures inherited from previous generations. …
16/06/2017
To The Tavern
The EIJM's latest acquisition. This new CD brings you klezmer at its most beguiling and seductive. The subtleties of the original tradition, combined with a kick-the-chairs-over ability to party …
30/05/2017
La synagogue de la Victoire, 150 ans du judaïsme français
This extraordinary book beautifully illustrated was written by twenty specialists. It traces the history of this emblematic place, inseparable of French Judaism …
01/05/2017
The Jean Bécache Collection
Rare document collection containing old manuscript scores, original or liturgical compositions from Algeria, audio cassettes and writings on Arabic music theory …
25/04/2017
The Lost Paradise
In February 2016 was published this book that draws ethnographic and archival work to consider the entanglement of materiality, personhood, and temporality in the urban, Arabic-language musical and poetic practice known as Andalusi music …
15/03/2017
ZARA LEVINA – The piano concertos
A beautiful CD joins our collections. Zara Alexandrovna Levina, is born in 1906 in Alexandrovsk (Ukraine), and witnessed two world wars, the Russian revolution, the collapse of the Russian Empire and the totalitarian reconstruction of her land, USSR …
06/03/2017
Itsik’s Megilah
Released in March 2015, the Medem Center Arbeter Ring in Paris published the famous Purim Shpil written by the poet Itsik Manger (1901-1969), with lyrics and music score, put on music by Dov Seltzer …
25/02/2017
Gesänge aus der Synagogue / Chants of the synagogue
Published in 1997 at Koch Schwann editions, that CD puts under light some compositions for the synagogue for choir and organ written by Isaac and Jacques Offenbach …
15/02/2017
Klezmer : Music, History and Memory
Publication of the latest study on klezmer music, written by researcher, musician and dancer Walter Zev Feldman …
