The Sounding Jewish Podcast

The seventh and final episode of Season 1 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Kay Kaufman Shelemay. We discuss her ethnographic fieldwork with the Syrian Jews of Brooklyn and Israel as well as the "Beta Israel" Jews of Ethiopia (also called "Falashas"), as well as her ongoing study of the connections between the African and Jewish musical diasporas. Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Wa...

The sixth episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Amanda Ruppenthal Stein. We discuss her ongoing study of Jewish identity in the art music of 19th century German speaking Europe, as well as her recent trip with the Cantor's Assembly to visit the Abayudaya Jewish Community of Uganda. Musicologist Amanda Ruppenthal Stein, Ph. D. is a lecturer in music at Carroll University in Waukesha,...

The fifth episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Phil Alexander. We discuss his background as a performing musician, entrance into the academic field of Jewish music studies, research for his recent book Sounding Jewish in Berlin, and ongoing work on the musical life of the Jews of late 19th and early 20th century Scotland. Dr. Phil Alexander is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow a...

The fourth episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Julia Riegel. We discuss their initial entrance into the field of Jewish music studies, and ongoing work on the musical life of the Warsaw ghetto. Dr. Julia Riegel received their PhD in Modern European History at Indiana University Bloomington in 2021. They are currently a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University. Their rese...

The third episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Assaf Shelleg. We discuss his entrance into the field of Jewish music studies, recent book publications, and ongoing work on art music by and about Jews. Assaf Shelleg, a professor of musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the awards winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxfo...

The second episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Rachel Adelstein. We discuss her initial entrance into the field of Jewish music studies, and ongoing work on American and British women's cantorial history. Dr. Rachel Adelstein is an ethnomusicologist, and the Ritual Coordinator at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel in New Haven, Connecticut. She received her PhD from the University o...

The first episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Gordon Dale. We discuss his initial entrance into the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on the music of Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker and with the Modzitz Hasidic community. Dr. Gordon Dale is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Musicology and the Inaugural Dr. Jack Gottlieb, z”l, Scholar in Jewish Music Studies at the Debbie Fr...

Trailer for a new podcast of monthly 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.