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“Songs of the Nation”: Maskilic Readings of Psalms after Moses Mendelssohn
A talk by Dr. Yael Sela Teichler, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Open University of Israel
Discussant: Dr. Michah Gottlieb, Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, New York University
Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 6 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-Sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute and the American Jewish Historical Society
“'When We Remembered Zion"
The New Budapest Orpheum Society Commemorates Yom HaShoah
Pre-concert talk by Dr. Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, University of Chicago
Monday, April 24, 2017 at 6:30 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute and the American Jewish Historical Society
“'Your New House': Wedding Songs, Gender, and Memory in an Indian Jewish Community"
Dr. Anna Schultz, Associate Professor of Music, Stanford University
Respondents: Dr. Jane C. Sugarman, Graduate Center City University of New York
Dr. Eben Graves, Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Lecturer, Dept. of Music, Columbia University.
Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 7 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
"Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism"
Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit, Ph.D., Tufts University
Discussants: Dr. Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University
Cantor Richard Cohn, Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music,
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
"Klezmer: Music, History & Memory"
Walter Zev Feldman, Visiting Professor of Music, NYU Abu Dhabi
Discussants: James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia and
Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College
Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by AJHS, YIVO, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the American Jewish Historical Society
"Israel in Three Anthems" (“Ha-Tikva,” “L’Internationale,” and “Yerushalayimshel Zahav”)
Michael A. Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Brigid Cohen, Assistant Professor of Music, New York University
Monday, November 28th at 7pm - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
A talk by Dr. Yael Sela Teichler, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Open University of Israel
Discussant: Dr. Michah Gottlieb, Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, New York University
Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 6 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-Sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute and the American Jewish Historical Society
“'When We Remembered Zion"
The New Budapest Orpheum Society Commemorates Yom HaShoah
Pre-concert talk by Dr. Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, University of Chicago
Monday, April 24, 2017 at 6:30 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute and the American Jewish Historical Society
“'Your New House': Wedding Songs, Gender, and Memory in an Indian Jewish Community"
Dr. Anna Schultz, Associate Professor of Music, Stanford University
Respondents: Dr. Jane C. Sugarman, Graduate Center City University of New York
Dr. Eben Graves, Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Lecturer, Dept. of Music, Columbia University.
Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 7 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
"Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism"
Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit, Ph.D., Tufts University
Discussants: Dr. Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University
Cantor Richard Cohn, Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music,
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7 PM - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
"Klezmer: Music, History & Memory"
Walter Zev Feldman, Visiting Professor of Music, NYU Abu Dhabi
Discussants: James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia and
Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College
Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by AJHS, YIVO, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the American Jewish Historical Society
"Israel in Three Anthems" (“Ha-Tikva,” “L’Internationale,” and “Yerushalayimshel Zahav”)
Michael A. Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Brigid Cohen, Assistant Professor of Music, New York University
Monday, November 28th at 7pm - Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
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