This year is an exciting moment for the field of Jewish Early Music at the Association of Jewish Studies 2024 Conference, which is being held online from December 15-19, 2024. On December 18 and 19 at 1:30-3:00pm, eight scholars from the field will present “THE STUDY OF EARLY MODERN JEWISH MUSICS: MAPPING THE FIELD,” describing a wide range of sources and new research on Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian Jewish musicians, traditions, and soundscapes in early modern Europe.
Abstracts are below. You can register online here: https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/register2024 .
PANEL 1 (December 18, 1:30pm-3:00pm)
- Surveying the Sephardic Musical ‘Baroque’ in the Amsterdam Esnoga – Paul Feller (Northwestern University)
- Early Modern Jewish Choral Liturgical Music: A Practice in Formation – Mark Kligman (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Jewish Hammered Dulcimer Players in Jewish and non-Jewish Contexts in the Eighteenth Century – Nadav Ovadia (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon)
- Mapping Early Modern Jewish Music Studies: Yiddish Song Cultures Diana Matut (Old Synagogue Essen)
PANEL 2 (December 19, 1:30pm-3:00pm)
- Mapping musical pathways: A viewpoint of Seventeenth century Europe Naomi Cohn Zentner (Bar-Ilan University)
- Michtam L’David: Confessions of a Sixteenth-Century Reformed Klezmer – Matthew Austerklein (Halle-Wittenberg University)
- Between Nostalgia and Novelty – Yiddish Song in the Italian Renaissance – Avery Gosfield (Ensemble Lucidarium)
- The Earliest Corpus of Ashkenazi Cantorial Music (ca. 1740-1840) – Daniel Katz (Martin Buber Institute, University of Cologne)
NOTE: Please also stay tuned for more information on a mini-conference on Jewish Early Music scheduled for UCLA on April 27th! https://milkenjewishmusiccenter.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/events/1461/
