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Mark Kligman,
Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Jewish Musicology at HebrewUnion College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in New York where he teaches in the School of Sacred Music.
He was educated at the University of Michigan and New York University; he earned his
doctorate at NYU in 1997. He specializes in the liturgical traditions of Middle
Eastern Jewish communities. Dr. Kligman has published several articles on the liturgy
of Syrian Jews. His work also extends to historical trends in the liturgical music of
Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions; his entry "Music in Judaism" was recently published
in The Encyclopedia of Judaism (2000). He was the editor of the Jewish terms in Worship
Music: a Concise Dictionary (2000), a dictionary covering liturgical music. In the Spring
of 2001 he was a Research Fellow & Visiting Professor at the Center for Judaic Studies,
University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued research on contemporary trends in Jewish
music. An article on this topic appears in the American Jewish Yearbook 2001. He lives
with is wife and daughter in Highland Park, NJ.
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