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The Jewish Music Forum Presents: Jewish Music and Humor
April 29, 2018
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Conference Schedule

9:00am- Coffee and Pastries

9:30am: Welcoming Remarks: How do Jews Sound Funny?
Dr. Gordon Dale, Executive Director of the Jewish Music Forum, HUC-JIR

9:45am:  Humoring the Stereotype into a Liminal Space: Lipa Schmeltzer's "Gelt"
Dr. Tina Frühauf (Columbia University, CUNY, RILM), followed by a conversation with Lipa Schmelzer, Badkhan and Singer

10:30am: Sephardic Songs: The Lighter Side, A Lecture-Demonstration 
Dr. Judith Cohen (York University)

11:15am: Coffee Break

11:30am:  Music and Humor Where None Should Be: The Holocaust
Dr. Michael Beckerman (NYU), Dr. Bret Werb (Holocaust Memorial Museum), Dr. Aviva Atlani (University of Toronto), Samantha Cooper (NYU),  and Dr. Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)

12:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30pm: Keynote: Scoring Jewish Comedy: The (Very) Early Years
Dr. Daniel Goldmark (Case Western Reserve University)

2:30pm: Panel: Jewish Comedians and Music in America
“Did Someone Call Me Schnorrer?”: On the Marx Brothers’ Jewish Musical Humor
   Olivia Cacchione (Northwestern University)   
Mickey Katz: A New Jewish Comedic Musical Frontier

   Dr. Mark Kligman (UCLA)   
The Jewish Humor of Allan Sherman: The Broadway Parodies

   Dr. Ira Epstein (CUNY)

4:00- Conclude

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