The Jewish Music Forum

2008-2009

ENGAGING ETHNOGRAPHY AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN JEWISH MUSIC

 All events take place in the Kovno Room, except where indicated

Kovno Room, Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street , New York City

 Events are free and open to the public

November 14, 2008 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Beyond the Pale: The Russian Jewish Musical Experiment 100 Years Later

Dr. James Loeffler, University of Virginia
Dr. Klára Móricz, Amherst College
Dr. Lyudmila Sholokhova, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

December 12, 2008 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

 American Jews, Music and the Memory of the Holocaust: 1945-1962

 Professor Hasia Diner, New York University
Respondent: Cantor Bruce Ruben, Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion

January 16, 2009 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

 Ethel Raim and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance: Three Decades of Showcasing Jewish Music

 With Ethel Raim and Professor Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
co-sponsored by the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion at NYU

February 26, 2009 – 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

The Jewish Self/The Jewish Other: Performing Identity in the "Majufes"
HELD AT: Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Hall, 4th Floor

Dr. Halina Goldberg, Indiana University
co-sponsored by the University of Chicago

April 24, 2009 – 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

"Old Lamps for New": Alexander Krein and Jewish Neonationalism
HELD AT: Davison Room, Harvard University Music Building, Cambridge, Mass.

Dr. Klara Moricz, Amherst College
Respondent: Professor Alexander Rehding, Harvard University
co-sponsored by Harvard University

May 1, 2009 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

 The Participating Observer: Fieldwork in Jewish Settings

Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit, Tufts University
Respondent: Dr. Henry Goldschmidt, Wesleyan University
co-sponsored by the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion at NYU


 
2007-2008

EXPANDING THE MARGINS OF JEWISH MUSIC 

February 22, 2008 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Creating "New" Jewish Sounds

Dr. Josh Kun, University of Southern California
Dr. Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University
Daniel Saks, member of the bands DeLeon and The LeeVees

January 25, 2008 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

 Felix Mendelssohn and the Jewish Question

 Dr. Jeffrey Sposato, University of Houston
Respondent: Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

November 20, 2007 – 7:00 PM

 Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive

 Chana Mlotek, YIVO Music Archivist
Prof. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
with a performance by Zalmen Mlotek and Eleanor Reissa


2006-2007

MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

The Jewish Music Forum is pleased to introduce its third season, Music, Media, and Memory in Jewish Life, in its continued efforts to explore and expand the geographic, disciplinary, and conceptual boundaries of how Jewish music is understood in today’s academic world. Among the common themes of the 2006-2007 season will be the provocative music as cultural property in the early twentieth-century United States, post-Holocaust Europe, and the contemporary Middle East; how technology simultaneously expands and fragments the meaning and reception of musical experience; and how gender informs the performance and memory of Jewish musics, both traditional and modern.

 All seminars take place in the Forchheimer Auditorium

at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street , New York City

 Events are free and open to the public

Click HERE for a complete list of Forum presentations, 2005-2007

 

 September 15, 2006 – 10:30AM-12PM

 How Do You Play the Musical Scream in Gideon Klein's Terezin Requiem?

 Prof. Michael Beckerman, New York University
Respondent: Gershon Kingsley, composer and conductor

 

 October 20, 2006 – 10:30AM-12PM  

Music and Memory among Crypto-Jews in Portuguese Border Villages

Dr. Judith Cohen, York University, Toronto
Respondent: Prof. Jane Gerber, CUNY Graduate Center  
Co-sponsor: American Sephardi Federation

 

November 10, 2006 – 10:30AM-12:30PM

 Composing Herself: Finding Miriam Gideon in Her 1958 Opera Fortunato

 *Lecture Performance and Panel Discussion

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, CUNY Graduate Center  
Panel discussion: Prof. Ellie Hisama, Columbia University, Prof.Bruce Saylor, CUNY Graduate Center, and Cantor Charles Osborne

  

December 8, 2006 – 10:30AM-12PM  

Mediterranean Israeli Music: The Politics of Aesthetics

Dr. Amy Horowitz, Ohio State University  
Respondent: Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York
University  
Co-sponsor: American Sephardi Federation

  

February 16, 2007 – 10:30AM-12PM

 Sephardic Music On Record: 
A Century of Commercial Ladino Recordings

 Prof. Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University, Jerusalem  
and Joel Bresler, discographer  
Repsondent:  Dr. Virginia Danielson, Harvard
University  
Co-sponsor: American Sephardi Federation

  

March 9, 2007 – 10:30AM-12PM  

The Media and the Messenger: 

Transforming the Cantor's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

 Prof. Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University  
Respondents: Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York
University

Prof. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

   

April 27, 2007 – 10:30AM-12PM

Blacks and Jews in American Popular Music:  
The Business of Cultural Mediation
 

Prof. Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton  
Respondent: Prof. Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University

 

 May 8, 2007 – 7:30PM-9:30PM  

Kurt Weill's Kol Nidre  
Lecture and Music Performance

Prof. Tamara Levitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Respondent: Prof. Kim Kowalke, Eastman School of Music , 
Kurt Weill Foundation

Co-sponsors: Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, Kurt Weill Foundation, and European American Music

 

All events are in the auditorium of the Center for Jewish History, 16 West 15th Street at 10:30 A.M. For information on the series please contact the American Society for Jewish Music at 212-294-8328 or e-mail info@jewishmusicforum.org.

 

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