Archiving Sound Documents of Jewish Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Katz Center
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At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.
Featuring
Gila Flam
The National Library of Jerusalem
Gila Flam has been the director and curator of the Music Department and the Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem since 1994. In this position, she has developed one of the foremost collections serving the field of Jewish music. She writes and lectures on the topics of Yiddish songs, Israeli music, and music archiving.
Flam received her B.A. and M.A. in Musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from The University of California, Los Angeles Department of Music in 1988. She founded the Ethnomusicology Archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, where she served as director of the ethnomusicology department from 1989 to 1992.
