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Jacintas Zingers

(Paris, France) A choir directed by Jacinta, with a mainly Yiddish song repertoire, made up of three groups of singers according to level …

Jacinta

Author, composer, arranger, actress and singer, Sofia Jacinta Szlechtman was born on September 30, 1950 in Buenos Aires to a Russian-Polish Jewish family. Her maternal grandparents came to Buenos Aires …

Recording History

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization …

GHARAMOPHONE

This website, dedicated to the preservation of North African sound archives, presents several dozen 78 rpm records that can be listened to online …

Raoul Journo

Discover a selection of Raoul Journo's greatest musical hits, such as Taâlilat laâroussa or Tlammet Lahbab …

The concert posters of Jacques Chalude, known as Ben Baruch

Donated to the IEMJ in 2015 by his son Joël Chalude, the archive of Jacques Chalude, known as Ben Baruch, includes more than 440 documents, including nearly a hundred concert posters and press clippings from the 1930s to 1980 …

Michel Heymann has entrusted his entire music archives to the EIJM

On December 7, 2022, Michel Heymann has given to the EIJM his entire musical archives accumulated during his long career as a cantor in Haguenau, Mulhouse and Luxembourg …

The songs of Chanukah

Discover the most important songs of Chanukah that punctuate the eight days of this Festival of Lights in the very heart of winter …

Release of 3 new works by the composer Serge Kaufmann

The EIJM’s publishing house is happy to announce the release of 3 new music scores by Serge Kaufmann, Ima ou la Mère dépossédée, Dix duos pour 2 violons et pour 2 violoncelles, still correlated with the world of Jewish music …

Prayers to the tune of La Marseillaise!

The Jewish liturgy is full of surprises! In 1993, while I was coordinating the activities of the Yuval Association for the preservation of Jewish musical traditions, under the direction of …