The Jewish Music Forum
A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music
Thank you for joining us for a wonderful 19th season!
Check back for information about the 2023-24 season, which will begin in Fall 2023.
NINETEENTH SEASON 2022-2023
January 26, 2023
City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem Book Talk
Dr. Michael Figueroa (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
February 1, 2023
“Kol mekadesh shevi'i: Resounding Synagogue and Home in Ashkenaz"
Program featuring Dr. Naomi Cohn Zentner (Bar Ilan University) with a response by Prof. Eliyahu Schleifer
February 9, 2023
Kurt Weill’s America Book Talk
Dr. Naomi Graber (Associate Professor at the University of Georgia) with a response by Dr. Kim Kowalke
February 23, 2023
More Forbidden Music
Musicians from Vienna’s ExilArte and Mannes School of Music
Music by Julius Bürger, Hals Gál, Andre Singer, Gustav Lewi, Walter Arlen, Vally Weigl and Erich Wolfgang Korngold
March 13, 2023
Refuge: Art Songs by Jewish American Refugee Composers CD Launch
Joyce Rosenzweig and David Berger
Music by Rappaport, Kingsley, Alter, Schalit, Piket, Weiner, Janowski and Berlin
March 14, 2023
“American Jewish Women and New York Opera Culture”
Program featuring Dr. Samantha M. Cooper (Harvard University) with a Response by Judith Pinnolis (Berklee College of Music)
Sponsored by Carnegie Hall’s Women in Music Series and the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research
March 30, 2023
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Nazi death camps.
A concert of Bulgarian and American music.
April 20, 2023
Innovators in Exile: The Centenary of the International Chamber Music Performances In Salzburg, Austria
Music by Hindemith, Wellesz, Grosz, Kauder, Pisk, Weigl, Lustgarten and Reti
In conjunction with Elysium – between two continents and The Leo Baeck Institute
May 2, 2023
“Dance, Movement, and Jewish Modernity”
A Panel featuring Dr. Hannah Schwadron, Dr. Sonia Gollance,
Dr. Rosa Abrahams, Dr. Rebecca Rossen, and Meirav Ong
May 17, 2023
“Babylon, Ghetto, Renaissance and Modern Oblivion”
A film screening and conversation with writer/director Jessica Gould
June 12, 2023
A Dying Person [A Goyses]: A New Chamber Opera
Premier of new chamber opera and conversation with librettist Daniel London and composer Evan Rapport
January 26, 2023
City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem Book Talk
Dr. Michael Figueroa (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
February 1, 2023
“Kol mekadesh shevi'i: Resounding Synagogue and Home in Ashkenaz"
Program featuring Dr. Naomi Cohn Zentner (Bar Ilan University) with a response by Prof. Eliyahu Schleifer
February 9, 2023
Kurt Weill’s America Book Talk
Dr. Naomi Graber (Associate Professor at the University of Georgia) with a response by Dr. Kim Kowalke
February 23, 2023
More Forbidden Music
Musicians from Vienna’s ExilArte and Mannes School of Music
Music by Julius Bürger, Hals Gál, Andre Singer, Gustav Lewi, Walter Arlen, Vally Weigl and Erich Wolfgang Korngold
March 13, 2023
Refuge: Art Songs by Jewish American Refugee Composers CD Launch
Joyce Rosenzweig and David Berger
Music by Rappaport, Kingsley, Alter, Schalit, Piket, Weiner, Janowski and Berlin
March 14, 2023
“American Jewish Women and New York Opera Culture”
Program featuring Dr. Samantha M. Cooper (Harvard University) with a Response by Judith Pinnolis (Berklee College of Music)
Sponsored by Carnegie Hall’s Women in Music Series and the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research
March 30, 2023
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Nazi death camps.
A concert of Bulgarian and American music.
April 20, 2023
Innovators in Exile: The Centenary of the International Chamber Music Performances In Salzburg, Austria
Music by Hindemith, Wellesz, Grosz, Kauder, Pisk, Weigl, Lustgarten and Reti
In conjunction with Elysium – between two continents and The Leo Baeck Institute
May 2, 2023
“Dance, Movement, and Jewish Modernity”
A Panel featuring Dr. Hannah Schwadron, Dr. Sonia Gollance,
Dr. Rosa Abrahams, Dr. Rebecca Rossen, and Meirav Ong
May 17, 2023
“Babylon, Ghetto, Renaissance and Modern Oblivion”
A film screening and conversation with writer/director Jessica Gould
June 12, 2023
A Dying Person [A Goyses]: A New Chamber Opera
Premier of new chamber opera and conversation with librettist Daniel London and composer Evan Rapport
The Jewish Music Forum is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music,
with the support of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
and the Center for Jewish History.
Founded in 2004, the Jewish Music Forum is now in its eighteenth season in 2021-22
All programs of the Jewish Music Forum are free and open to the public.
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Site last updated July 20, 2023
Site last updated July 20, 2023