Members

Below are the names of our group members, their research specialties, and relevant links. If you would like to have your information included on this page, please fill out this form. 

• Research focuses: Ashkenazi, Reform and Conservative Jewish liturgical chant in the U.S.A.; embodied prayer experience; embodied meter; synchrony.
• Research methodology: Metrical analysis through movement (mimetic and kinesthetic/embodied analysis); Ethnography (interviews/observations) integrated with music & movement analysis.

• Research focuses: Mid-twentieth century klezmer music, klezmer revitalization, social dance, digital humanities.

• Research focuses: Sephardic, Crypto-Jewish, rural Portugal and Spain, Balkans; medieval.
• Research methodology: ethnography based.

• Research focuses: Jewish engagement with opera; women’s vocality; (musical) humor.
• Research methods: Varied; archival and press analysis; cultural history; voice and sound studies.

• Research focuses: Romanian and Moldavian connections to klezmer music, klezmer education, working with archival sources of instrumental klezmer
• Research methodology: ad hoc. I tend to think broadly across large collections of tunes, but i am particularly interested in the ways that klezmer melodies are adopted and adapted by non-Jewish musicians (communities) and vice versa.

• Research focuses: popular music, Jewish music, jazz, songwriting, musicals, and forensic musicology.
• Research methodology: Cross-cultural comparative study through ethnomusicological and empirical-analytical research.

• Research focuses: Musicology (concert music; Holocaust period).
• Research methodology: archival.

Judit Frigyesi, Bar-Ilan University

• Research methodology: music theory.

• Research focuses: historical Ashkenazi liturgical music (especially ca. 1740-1840), Birnbaum Collection, Kashtan, Hirsh Weintraub, Isaac Offenbach, nusach, liturgical performance practice.
• Research methodology: Manuscript and textual studies, transcription, analysis, comparative studies.

• Research focuses: Syria, Sephardi/Mizrahi Liturgy, Eastern European Liturgical Music, Liturgical Music.
• Research methodology: Focus on Music and Culture and deeply analyze music.

• Research focuses: Ernest Bloch: life and music; Harmonization/Arrangement of Modal Melodies and Motifs (cantorial, traditional folk); Jewish Music in China; etc.
• Research methodology: musicology, ethnomusicology, composition, performance.

• Research focuses: Klezmer, cantillation, focus on both historical and contemporary materials.
• Research methodology: Eclectic, but involving schema theory, computational analysis, and interpretive approaches. I aim to blend ethnography and analysis.

• Research focuses: Italian Jewish music learned and traditional repertoires.
• Research methodology: mostly historical.

• Research focuses: Jewish instrumental klezmer, all regions and time periods including revival; music of Hasidic communities.
• Research methodology: Varied, at times ethnographic, historical, culture studies, theoretical/musicological

• Research focuses: Postwar Yiddish music and klezmer.
• Research methodology: Historical musicology/ethnomusicology.

• Research focuses: Romaniote Jews; Yiddish and klezmer revival, especially LGBT+ gender performativity in this music; computational ethnomusicology; cognitive musicology; cross-cultural analysis of music with regard to language.
• Research methodology: Inspired by a Diasporist mindset; “computational”; focused on evaluating musical idioms vs. musical aesthetics and locating the sonic markers of cultural aesthetics.