Beyond Noise and Libels: Jews and Christians Listening to Job—Notes on Methodology

Ruth HaCohen is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. HaCohen is the author of books and articles that explicate the role played by music in shaping and reflecting wide social, cultural, and political contexts and processes. Her sweeping historical study, The Music Libel against the Jews (Yale University Press, 2011) received the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. It explores the accusation of Jews as producers of noise in a Christian universe dominated by harmonious sounds. Ruth HaCohen is the winner of the 2022 Rothschild Prize in the Humanities. In 2017, she was elected as a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society "for outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship in music."