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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM

COMPLETE LISTING OF PRESENTATIONS 2005-2010

FIRST SEASON, SPRING 2005

January 28, 2005

“Memory and History in Jewish Music”

Inaugural Lecture

Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay

G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University

February 11, 2005

“Studying Jewish Music in Israel: Achievements, Failures and Challenges

for the Future”

Professor Edwin Seroussi

Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Guest chair and respondent: Professor Stephen Blum, City University of

New York

March 11, 2005

“Who Will Reclaim the Golden Sounds?: Judaism, Tradition,

and Music Scholarship in an American Context”

Professor Judah M. Cohen

New York University

Guest chair and respondent: Professor Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

April 8, 2005

“Beyond Yiddishland: New Studies from the

Jewish Musical Mediterranean”

Professor Mark Kligman

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Guest chair and respondent: Professor Uri Sharvit, Bar-Ilan University

May 13, 2005

“Between Wissenschaft and Etnografiia: The Search for a Jewish Musical

Science in Eurasia, Past and Present”

James Loeffler

Columbia University

Guest chair and respondent: Dr. Ludmila Sholokhova

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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SECOND SEASON, FALL 2005-SPRING 2006

Friday, September 23, 2005

Hankus Netsky
(New England Conservatory of Music)

Title: The Philadelphia Russian Sher Medley: Viewing the Immigrant

Experience through a Musical Text

Respondent: Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)

Friday, November 4, 2005

Tina Frühauf
(CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: Between Church and Synagogue: The Organ in German Jewish

Culture

Respondent: Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)

Friday, November 18, 2005

Walter Zev Feldman
(Bar-Ilan University)

Title: The Sephardic Voice in Ottoman Song: The Life and Art of Tanburi

Isak Fresco (1745-1814)

Respondent: Karl Signell (Editor, Ethnomusicology Online)

Friday, December 2, 2005

Francesco Spagnolo
(Hebrew University/U.C.-Santa Cruz)

Title: From Rossi to Rossini: Shifting Paradigms in Italian Jewish Musical

Culture
co-sponsored by the Centro Culturale Primo Levi as part of the

symposium Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond

Respondent: David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday, January 20, 2006

Tamar Barzel
(Wellesley College)

Title: The Tradition Continues on the Lower East Side: Experimental Music

and the American Jewish Imaginary in 1990s New York City

Respondent: Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan)

Friday, February 10, 2006

Nina Spiegel
(National Museum of American Jewish History)

Title: Finding the Rhythm: Dance and Music in Jewish Studies

Respondent: Judah M. Cohen (New York University)

Friday, March 17, 2006

David Schiller
(University of Georgia)

Title: Assimilating (Post-Modern) Jewish Music: Ambivalence in

Contemporary Composition

Respondent: Klara Moricz (Amherst College)

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Friday, March 31, 2006

Judith Pinnolis
(Brandeis University)

Title: Energizing Jewish Musical Memory: Encounters with Sound and Text in

Archives and Libraries

Respondents: Bret Werb (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and

Gina Genova (New York University / Milken Archive of American Jewish

Music)

Friday, April 28, 2006

Shirli Gilbert
(University of Michigan)

Title: “‘I am a Jew from eternal nowhere’: Yiddish song in the aftermath of

the Holocaust”

Respondent: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University)

Friday, May 12, 2006

Evan Rapport
(CUNY) and Galeet Dardashti (University of Texas at Austin)

Title: The Migration of Memory: New Contexts for Mizrahi and Bukharian

Musical Poetic Traditions in Israel and the United States

Respondent: Mark Kligman (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute, New

York)

THIRD SEASON, FALL 2006 – SPRING 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

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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

Respondent: 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

Presented by: Dr. Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University

Respondents: Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University,

and Dr. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

Co-sponsor: Working Group on Jews/Media/Religion at the Center for

Religion and Media, New York 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: The Weill/Lenya Institute; Milken Archive.

A Program of the American Society for Jewish Music

The Jewish Music Forum Committee

Dr. James Loeffler, Founder, and Academic Vice Chair

Dr. Judah M. Cohen, Academic Vice Chair

Dr. Mark Kligman , Academic Chair

Michael Leavitt, President, American Society for Jewish Music

Gina Genova, Executive Director (2006-07)

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FOURTH SEASON, FALL 2007 – SPRING 2008

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

FIFTH SEASON, FALL 2008 – SPRING 2009

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

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February 26, 2009 – 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

The Jewish Self/The Jewish Other: Performing Identity in the "Majufes"

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

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

SIXTH SEASON, FALL 2009 – SPRING 2010

Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 3:00 P.M.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music"

-- A unique interview by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang

Composer Steve Reich

Composer David Lang

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 7:30 P.M.

Is Israeli Art Music Jewish

Professor Ronit Seter, Jewish Music Research Centre at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Respondent: Dr. Klara Moricz, Amherst College

March, 2010

Events at the Jewish Music Festival in Berkeley

Speakers: TBD

Respondents: TBD

March 5, 2010 - 9:30 A.M. - 12 P.M.

Sacred and Secular Music Texts in Modern Times

Dr. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

Dr. Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

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April 2, 2010 - 10:30 PM - 12:00 PM

In a Land Large as an Apple Tree': Wolpe's Avant-Garde Music,

Pedagogy, and Pacifist Zionism in 1930's Palestine

Dr. Brigid Cohen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Respondent: TBD

April 15, 2010 – TIME TBD

Imaginaries of Exile and Emergence in Israeli Jewish and

Palestinian Hip-Hop

Dr. David A. McDonald, Indiana University

Respondent: Dr. Edwin Seroussi, Jewish Music Research Center of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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