Lectures / Conferences

The liturgical singing of the Ethiopian Jews: an Israeli destiny

Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 7:00 pm, at the "Centre d'Art et de Culture de l'Espace Rachi" (39 rue Broca - 75005 Paris), a musical lecture by Simha Arom and Olivier Tourny, organized by the European Institute of Jewish Music, as part of the 18th edition of the Festival of Jewish Cultures …

Conference: Synagogal music in Bordeaux: from the Temple of the Rue Causserouge (1812) to the inauguration of the Great Synagogue (1882), by Hervé Roten

Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 2pm at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, Lecture by Hervé Roten as part of the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the Great Synagogue of Bordeaux …

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – FROM THE MUSIC OF THE PORTUGUESE SYNAGOGUE IN THE 19TH TO THE ROLF LIEBERMAN ERA IN THE 20TH CENTURY

International conference at the University of Music Hamburg 1. – 3. March 2022 Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg – Harvestehuder Weg 12, 20148 Hamburg, Allemagne …

Conference – The place of the organ in the Jewish tradition – Hervé Roten

Sunday, October 24, 2021 from 2 to 3 pm - LE KARE - Boulogne-Billancourt (92100). Conference on the evolution of the role of the organ in the liturgy, organized within the framework of the days marking the 10th anniversary of Organ in France …

The night of theology – 4th edition

Thursday January 30, 2020 from 7 pm to 11h30 pm. An evening dedicated to relations between music and religion, and then to the ecological question, conceived and organized by the Villa Gillet and the Institution des Chartreux, as part of the festival La Nuit des Idées. In collaboration with the Fonds de dotation des Chartreux and RCF …

Jewish Music: When Singular is Plural

Wednesday November 6, 2019, 6 pm a lecture by Hervé Roten, Director of the European Institute of Jewish Music, at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (ITALY), in the framework of the session Art as/in Dialogue: Jewish and Christian Music …

Jewish music and cuisine : delicacies and sounds

CONFERENCE held by the EIJM and the CBL, the 20th June 2019 8h45 PM at the Cercle Bernard Lazare (75003). An audiovisual conference by Hervé Roten, director of the EIJM, around songs that speak of Jewish culinary specialties... …

The melody of the Kol Nidre : Sources, interpretations and new compositions

On the 8th April 2019 at 7h30 PM at the Institut Elie Wiesel in Paris (75010) audiovisual conference by Hervé Roten about the melody of the Kol Nidre, as part of the Lundis de Wiesel. REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED

Conference on the HATIKVA – Lyrical Odyssey, History and origins of the Israeli national anthem

A conference proposed by Théa Herz and the EIJM, as part of the Festival of Jewish Cultures in Paris, on June 13, 2018 at 6PM at the townhouse of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Théa Herz traces the incredible odyssey of this song. From what did the Israeli National anthem, Hatikvah - Hope, got inspired? Who wrote this poem and how? And how did this song became the anthem of the Israeli state? …

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 …

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