Before Klezmer... Yiddish Song and Instrumental Music in Early Modern Ashkenaz (17th c. Germany)

OxTalks is Changing

During Michaelmas Term, OxTalks will be moving to a new platform (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
For now, continue using the current page and event submission process (freeze period dates to be advised).

If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk

Before Klezmer... Yiddish Song and Instrumental Music in Early Modern Ashkenaz (17th c. Germany)

Diana Matut is a lecturer in Jewish and Yiddish Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and a musician. She published the two-volume edition of and commentary on a Western Yiddish manuscript of songs and Purim plays from the Bodleian Library Oxford, compiled around 1600 based on her PhD work. She researches late medieval and early modern Yiddish song cultures and is currently preparing an edition of all known early modern Yiddish wedding songs.

There will be a buffet reception from 19:00.

RSVP for buffet: info@oxfordchabad.org

All are welcome!

Date: 26 November 2019, 20:00
Venue: Slager Jewish Student Centre, 61 George St, Oxford OX1 2BQ
Speaker: Dr. Diana Matut (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: info@oxfordchabad.org
Audience: Members of the University only
This talk features in the following public collections:
- Seminars and Events of interest to the Faculty of History
Editor: Laura Spence