Lectures / Conferences

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 …

Lecture by Hervé Roten and David Winter – “Yiddish music in Parisian cabarets after WWII”.

April 22, 2017 at 6:45 p.m.: a two-part lecture illustrated by numerous audio examples, taken from the 6-CD box set published by Editions de l'IEMJ …

Lecture by Hervé Roten – “Chansons françaises, chansons juives: une interférence créative” (French songs, Jewish songs: a creative interference)

April 21, 2017 at 5 p.m., lecture by Hervé ROTEN, illustrated by numerous audio examples, on creative interferences between French chanson and Jewish song …

Lectures: Jewish art music in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries (Italy, France, Holland)

This course, illustrated by numerous audio and audiovisual examples, explores the wealth of Jewish musical practices in the Baroque and Classical periods, from 1623 to 1774. …

Lecture: “3,000 years of Jewish music”, by Hervé ROTEN

December 7, 2016 at 8pm, at the Centre Medem, introductory lecture on Jewish music, by ethnomusicologist Hervé Roten …

COURSE CYCLE: Itinerary of Jewish song in France

The Institut Elie Wiesel, in partnership with the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives, organizes a series of classes given by Hervé Roten on Thursdays, January 7, 14, 21 and 28, …

LECTURE “LOVE SONGS IN THE JEWISH TRADITION”

On June 12, 2014, a musical conference by Jacques Arnold, cantor, honorary rabbi and Hervé Roten, musicologist and director of the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives devoted to the scope of the text "The Song of Songs", as well as its resonance in different Jewish musical traditions …

Musical instruments in biblical times

March 24, 2014, at 6 pm, Hervé Roten's lecture on "Musical instruments in biblical times" at the Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi (Troyes, France) …

Mystical chanting in the Jewish tradition

Lecture on mystical chanting in the Jewish tradition, by Hervé Roten, as part of Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2013, focusing this year on the study of ecstatic practices supported by chant as a medium specific to mysticism …

Second summer university of Judeo-Spanish in Paris

7 – 12 JULY 2013 in the Centre Edmond Safra – 6 bis rue Michel-Ange – Paris 16e …

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