The Sounding Jewish Podcast

The sixth and final episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Sarah Ross. We explore her entrance into academia, interest in Jewish women's music-making, and her recent work on Jewish music in heritage studies. Guest Bio: Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Ross is a scholar in Jewish Music Studies. Since 2015, she has served as Professor of Jewish Music Studies and Director of the European C...

The fifth episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Árni Heimir Ingólfsson. We explore the unexpected start of his book Music at World's End , which focuses on the lives and careers of three exiled musicians who made their way from Nazi Germany and Austria to Iceland, and revitalized Iceland's classical music scene in the process. Árni Heimir Ingólfsson is an Icelandic musico...

The fourth episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor. We discuss her establishment of the Jewish Languages Project, the connections between language studies and sound studies, and her ongoing research in the field of Jewish language studies. Sarah Bunin Benor is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College and Adjunct Professor in the Uni...

The third episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Halina Goldberg. We discuss her childhood in Poland and emigration to the United States, and explore how her love of Chopin eventually led to her scholarship on the music of Polish Jewish daily life, ballet, and synagogues. Dr. Halina Goldberg is professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She c...

The second episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Mark Kligman. We discuss his spiritual and ethnomusicological journey, and explore his scholarship on the music of Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish community and most recently, music among the Orthodox men. Dr. Mark Kligman is the Inaugural holder of the Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Mu...

The first episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Uri Schreter. We discuss his early life in Israel, his educational journey, and how he came to write a doctoral dissertation on Klezmer. Dr. Uri Schreter is an interdisciplinary musicologist, composer, and performer whose work bridges scholarly research and creative practice. His research centers on twentieth-century Jewish...

Enjoy this trailer for the fourth season of Sounding Jewish, a monthly podcast featuring conversations with musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and sound studies scholars, hosted and produced by Dr. Samantha M. Cooper. The first episode will be released on December 1.

The seventh and final episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Ruth HaCohen. We discuss her early encounters with Ashkenazi liturgy and Israeli soundscapes. We then explore her ongoing work on music in the Book of Job, as well as the powers and dangers presented by certain historical and contemporary "vocal communities." Dr. Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower) is the Artur Rubinstein P...

The sixth episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Judah Cohen. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on and beyond the field of American Jewish music. Dr. Judah Cohen is Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture, Professor of Musicology, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Research, and Creative Activity at Indiana Univ...

The fifth episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Danielle Padley. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on the music of Jewish communities in Victorian Britain. Dr. Danielle Padley is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, and regularly contributes to the Faculty of Music. Her research explores professional and...

The fourth episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Judith Cohen. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on Sephardic music and contrafacta among the Crypto-Jewish communities of Brazil and Portugal. Dr. Judith Cohen is a singer, ethnomusicologist, medievalist and inveterate traveler who specializes in Sephardic songs and related t...

The third episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Jonathan Branfman. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish media studies, his recent book Millennial Jewish Stars , and his ongoing work on the representation of Jewish characters in contemporary television and popular culture. Dr. Jonathan Branfman is a Research Associate in the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis...

The second episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Joseph Toltz. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work collecting the musical experiences of Holocaust survivors, and early German Jewish musical life in Australia. Dr. Joseph Toltz is a Jewish music researcher, composer and performer affiliated to the University of Sydney. Formerly...

The first episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Naomi Cohn Zentner. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on music in historical ethnomusicology, sacred songs of the Ashkenazi domestic sphere, and the relationship between Ashkenazi and Sephardi liturgical traditions. Naomi Cohn Zentner is a lecturer in Bar Ilan University's mus...

Enjoy this trailer for the third season of Sounding Jewish, a monthly podcast featuring conversations with musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and sound studies scholars, hosted and produced by Dr. Samantha M. Cooper. The first episode will be released on November 1.

The seventh and final episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Rebecca Cypess. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on music in early modern Italy, England, and Gregorian England. Musicologist and historical keyboardist Dr. Rebecca Cypess is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross School the Arts...

The sixth episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Jeremiah Lockwood. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on American cantorial history. Dr. Jeremiah Lockwood is a scholar and musician, working in the fields of Jewish studies, performance studies, and ethnomusicology. Both his music performance and scholarship gravitate toward th...

The fifth episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Tina Frühauf. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on German Jewish music history. Dr. Tina Frühauf is Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York and serves on the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center, where she heads the Barry S. Brook Center for Musi...

The fourth episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Uri Edman. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on 18th-century British Jewish Opera Singers. Uri Erman is a Kreitman postdoctoral fellow at the History Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His research addresses the links between the performing arts and proc...

The third episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Edwin Seroussi. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on Sephardic, Ottoman, and Israeli Jewish music. Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology Emeritus and director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in Montevideo, Ur...

The second episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Jessica Roda. We discuss her forthcoming book about Ultra Orthodox Hasidic and Litvish female artists from New York and Montreal, as well as her new project on music, spirituality and healing in Orthodox Jewish circles. Jessica Roda is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. She specializes in Jewish life in North America...

The first episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Anna Schultz. We discuss her ethnographic fieldwork with the Bene Israel Jewish communities of India and Israel. Anna Schultz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and a member of the Greenberg Center fo...

Enjoy this trailer for the second season of Sounding Jewish, a monthly podcast featuring conversations with musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and sound studies scholars, hosted and produced by Dr. Samantha M. Cooper. The first episode will be released on November 1.

Please enjoy this very special second bonus episode, and thank you to all of the dedicated listeners who sent in their perspectives! To submit a recording with your thoughts on what Jewish music and sound mean to you, please send an MP3 file to thesoundingjewishpodcast@gmail.com or follow the show on Instagram @theSoundingJewishPodcast!

Please enjoy this very special first bonus episode! To submit a recording with your thoughts on what Jewish music and sound mean to you, please send an MP3 file to thesoundingjewishpodcast@gmail.com or follow the show on Instagram @theSoundingJewishPodcast!