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Mark Your Calendar for these Upcoming Jewish Music Forum Events!

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Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California
​with Dr. Lily E. Hirsch

Monday, September 23, 2019, 7:00-8:30 PM
Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th St. 
New York, NY 10011

Discover the story of pioneering Jewish musicologist Anneliese Landau, who stubbornly made her own way in music, first in Nazi Germany and later the United States.


​All Jewish Music Forum events are free and open to the public.

​Click HERE to learn more about this program and to reserve your free ticket!


Books will be available for purchase at the event. Can't wait? Click HERE to order one today!
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Between Tradition and Transformation: Shabbat Musical Practice in the Jewish Community of Istanbul
​with Dr. Joseph Alpar
November 19, 2019
12 noon
Columbia University, 617 Kent Hall  (near corner of Amsterdam and 116th St.)


At this presentation, which will include musical performances, ethnomusicologist Dr. Joseph Alpar will explore ongoing transformations in the sacred musical repertoires, and the religious identities that they represent, in Istanbul's contemporary Jewish community.  

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. 

All Jewish Music Forum Programs are free and open to the public.


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Laughter through Tears: Reconstructing the Lost Jewish Art of Badkhones
Joshua Horowitz, musician and independent scholar (Berkeley, CA)
James Loeffler, Corcoran Dept. of History
Joel Rubin, McIntire Dept. of Music

Nov. 20, 12PM
Univ. of Virginia
New Cabell Hall 236


For centuries, Jewish weddings in Eastern Europe featured the unique art of the badkhn, the professional Jewish wedding jester. Poorly documented and little studied, this tradition, part liturgical, part comedic, remains a crucial key to understanding classical Ashkenazi Jewish culture. This colloquium will feature historical examples followed by discussion from ethnomusicological and historical perspectives based on individual fieldwork and archival research. Click HERE for more information. 

This event is co-sponsored by the UVA Jewish Studies Program, McIntire Department of Music, and the Jewish Music Forum.

 2018-19 Season

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May 7, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC  

All Jewish Music Forum Programs are Free and Open to the Public
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In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen’s careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change. 

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Cancelled due to snow - Will be re-scheduled soon

Religious Contempt in the Music of Bach

Lecture by Dr. Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College)
February 20, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Shindell Choral Hall, Rutgers University
85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ


All Jewish Music Forum Events Are Free and Open to the Public
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The Jewish Music Forum is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music,
with the support of the American Jewish Historical Society
and the Center for Jewish History.
 

Founded in 2004, the Jewish Music Forum is now in its fifteenth season in 2018-19.
All programs of the Jewish Music Forum are free and open to the public.

For more information please visit
http://www.jewishmusic-asjm.org




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