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January 2024

On Jewish Sprachgesang
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
On Jewish Sprachgesang
Featuring: Yonatan Turgeman , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kapelya: The Gender of Music in Contemporary Jewish Brooklyn
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Kapelya: The Gender of Music in Contemporary Jewish Brooklyn
Featuring: Jeremiah Lockwood, Yale Institute of Sacred Music 
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies: Concept – Content – Contributors
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies: Concept – Content – Contributors
Featuring: Tina Frühauf , Columbia University
On Antisemitism and Education
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
On Antisemitism and Education
Featuring: Dara Horn
The Hasidic Nigun at the Sabbath Table
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
The Hasidic Nigun at the Sabbath Table
Featuring: Naomi Cohn Zentner, Bar-Ilan University
Sacred Soundscapes: Musical Traditions from the Ottoman Empire
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Sacred Soundscapes: Musical Traditions from the Ottoman Empire
Featuring: Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University; Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol; Bertram Lehmann; Burcu Güleç; George Lernis; Beth Bahia Cohen
The Sounds of Philadelphia: Gray’s Quickstep, Golden Slippers, and Blue Notes
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The Sounds of Philadelphia: Gray’s Quickstep, Golden Slippers, and Blue Notes
Featuring: Alisha C. Nypaver, Temple University
Mini-Course: Israeli Music Goes Mizrahi
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Mini-Course: Israeli Music Goes Mizrahi
Featuring: Galeet Dardashti, New York University

December 2023

Concluding Seminar **PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME, 3-5**
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Concluding Seminar **PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME, 3-5**
How to Talk Jewish: Listening to Jewish Voices around the World
Monday, December 4, 2023
How to Talk Jewish: Listening to Jewish Voices around the World

November 2023

The Missing Chapter in Ottoman-Jewish Musical and Cultural History: Songs, Soundscapes, and the Early Modern Society
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
The Missing Chapter in Ottoman-Jewish Musical and Cultural History: Songs, Soundscapes, and the Early Modern Society
Featuring: Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University
Hasidic Song in a Strange Land: Ben Zion Shenker and the Nigun in America
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Hasidic Song in a Strange Land: Ben Zion Shenker and the Nigun in America
Featuring: Gordon Dale, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion
Piyyut Rising National Premiere
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Piyyut Rising National Premiere
“Why Are You Silent to Our Enemies, Dear God?”: Music Facing the Holocaust
Thursday, November 16, 2023
“Why Are You Silent to Our Enemies, Dear God?”: Music Facing the Holocaust
Featuring: Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto
Old Hasidic Nigunim: Aesthetics and Semiotics 
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Old Hasidic Nigunim: Aesthetics and Semiotics 
Featuring: Michael Lukin , Hebrew University of Jerusalem