Lectures / Conferences

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 …

VIIth Summer University of the Institut Maïmonide – Montpellier

From July 5 to 12, 2012 at the Espace cultuel hébraïque médiéval of the Institut Maimonide - Lecture, talk and concert …

Norbert Glanzberg, his “own carousel”

June 13, 2012, musical conference on Norbert Glanzberg, and his fascinating story told in pictures and music by Serge Glanzberg, his son …

The CFMJ at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Paris

Conferences, round table and concerts : find all the events co-organized by the CFMJ at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Paris, on June 29 and 30 2011. Wednesday June …

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