• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Dr Diana Matut , Dr Deborah Rooke
• Timing: Tuesdays 4-6pm
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 16:00 - 'Piyutim in Early Modern Italian Liturgies'
  Dr Enrico Fink (Leo Levi Association for the Study of Jewish Italian Liturgy)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 16:00 - 'Music, Exile, and the Idea of Redemption in Early Modern Jewish Culture'
  Dr Yael Sela (Open University, Israel)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 16:00 - 'Seeing the Sounds: Music and Musicians in Jewish Book Art, c1500-1700'
  Prof Suzanne Wijsman (University of Western Australia)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 16:00 - 'A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara in Europe'
  Prof Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 16:00 - 'The Music Traditions of the Jews in Early Modern Venice'
  Dr Piergabriele Mancuso (Medici Archive Project, Florence)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 16:00 - 'Ashkenazi Cantors – A Transformation of Identity'
  Matthew Austerklein (Congregation Beth El, Ohio)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 16:00 - 'Ottoman Musical Sources as Antecedents for the Ottoman Stock within the Klezmer Music Fusion'
  Prof Walter Zev Feldman (NYU Abu Dabi)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 16:00 - 'The Development and Disappearance of the Old Practice of East-Ashkenazic Prayer Chant'
  Prof Judit Frigyesi (Bar Ilan University)