Sep 27 2:00 PM EDT Wednesday, September 27, 2023 2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Erich Mendel/Eric Mandel and the Archivization of Jewish Music before and after the Holocaust Featuring: Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Learn More RSVP required
Oct 9 11:00 AM EDT Monday, October 9, 2023 11:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Connecting Musical Worlds: Crossroads in Jewish and African Studies Featuring: Kay Kaufman Shelemay , Harvard University Learn More RSVP required
Oct 11 2:00 PM EDT Wednesday, October 11, 2023 2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Opera, Heroic Masculinity, and Jewishness in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Featuring: Uri Erman, Ben-Gurion University Learn More RSVP required
Oct 16 1:00 PM EDT Monday, October 16, 2023 1:00 PM EDT - 2:15 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Marcel Proust’s Jewish Comedy Featuring: Michael Steinberg, Brown University Learn More RSVP required
Oct 18 2:00 PM EDT Wednesday, October 18, 2023 2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Women Cantors, Media, and the Culture of Chastisement in Early 20th Century Cantorial Music Featuring: Jeremiah Lockwood, Yale Institute of Sacred Music Learn More RSVP required
Oct 19 12:00 PM EDT Thursday, October 19, 2023 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT For the Public The Emergence of Hasidic Nigunim: Teachings and Melodies Featuring: Michael Lukin , Hebrew University of Jerusalem How Hasidic thought finds expression in wordless sounds Learn More RSVP required
Oct 24 5:15 PM EDT Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:15 PM EDT - 7:00 PM EDT For the Public The Naked and the Hairy: Material Memory and Jewish Record-keeping in Early Modern Europe Featuring: Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies Lecture Learn More RSVP required
Oct 25 2:00 PM EDT Wednesday, October 25, 2023 2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Signing Judaism: Moses Mendelssohn’s “Living Script” and Deaf/Jewish Emancipation Featuring: Emma M. Brodeur, University of Rochester Learn More RSVP required
Oct 31 12:00 PM EDT Tuesday, October 31, 2023 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT For the Public Hasidic Song in a Strange Land: Ben Zion Shenker and the Nigun in America Featuring: Gordon Dale, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion The journey of one man and his musical world Learn More RSVP required
Nov 1 2:00 PM EDT Wednesday, November 1, 2023 2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar From Esther of Susa to Esther of Carpentras: Questions on Gender and Sound Featuring: Katharina Galor , Brown University Learn More RSVP required
Nov 8 2:00 PM EST Wednesday, November 8, 2023 2:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Old Hasidic Nigunim: Aesthetics and Semiotics Featuring: Michael Lukin , Hebrew University of Jerusalem Learn More RSVP required
Nov 15 2:00 PM EST Wednesday, November 15, 2023 2:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Beyond Noise and Libels - Jews and Christians Listening to Job: Notes on Methodology Featuring: Ruth HaCohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Learn More RSVP required
Nov 16 12:00 PM EST Thursday, November 16, 2023 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST For the Public “Why Are You Silent to Our Enemies, Dear God?”: Music Facing the Holocaust Featuring: Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto Songs of the Ukrainian ghetto Learn More RSVP required
Nov 29 2:00 PM EST Wednesday, November 29, 2023 2:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar The Missing Chapter in Ottoman-Jewish Musical and Cultural History: Songs, Soundscapes, and the Early Modern Society Featuring: Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University Learn More RSVP required
Dec 6 2:00 PM EST Wednesday, December 6, 2023 2:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST For Current Fellows Ruth Meltzer Seminar Concluding Seminar Learn More RSVP required
Jan 23 1:00 PM EST Tuesday, January 23, 2024 1:00 PM EST - 2:00 PM EST For the Public The Hasidic Nigun at the Sabbath Table Featuring: Naomi Cohn Zentner, Bar-Ilan University How melodies of the Hasidic court morphed for family mealtimes Learn More RSVP required
Jan 30 12:00 PM EST Tuesday, January 30, 2024 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST For the Public Kapelya: The Gender of Music in Contemporary Jewish Brooklyn Featuring: Jeremiah Lockwood, Yale Institute of Sacred Music Raza’s new album of nigunim sung by Orthodox women Learn More RSVP required
Feb 6 12:00 PM EST Tuesday, February 6, 2024 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST For the Public Reinterpreting and Reinventing Nigunim up to Today Featuring: Mark Kligman, University of California, L.A. New uses of the traditional melodies, from classical to pop to avant garde jazz Learn More RSVP required