Upcoming Programs

BONUS CONCERT Tues., April 9 at 7 PM - In conjunction with YIVO, help us celebrate the debut of and all the days were purple, a new album by composer Alex Weiser featuring Yiddish and English poems set to music. Bringing together poetry by Anna Margolin, Edward Hirsch, Rachel Korn, Abraham Sutzkever, and others, Weiser's work searches for the divine while reflecting on human longing in the midst of life's beauty and tumult. These new songs emerge in part from his encounters with Jewish music and Yiddish literary culture as Director of Public Programs at YIVO.

Performances by Eliza Bagg, Daniel Schlosberg, Maya Bennardo, Hannah Levinson,Hannah Collins, and Mike Compitello, will include a selection of songs from the new album, as well as the premiere of new arrangements of Yiddish and Hebrew songs from the YIVO Archives by composers Joseph Engel, Moses Milner, Lazare Saminsky, and Alexander Veprik, created by Weiser for the occasion. 

The album, which will be released by Cantaloupe Music on April 12, 2019, will be available for pre-release purchase and signing after the concert at a special reception with food inspired by the poetry on the album.     Free: Click to get tickets: yivo.org/And-All-The-Days-Were-Purple

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May 7, 2019 at 7 PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC  
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen’s careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change. 

All Jewish Music Forum Events Are Free and
Open to the Public
To Reserve Your Seat [email protected]

Cancelled Due to Snow - Soon to be Rescheduled

Religious Contempt in the Music of Bach
Lecture by Dr. Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College)
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Shindell Choral Hall, Rutgers University
85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ

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The Journey of a Hebrew Melody
Rabbi Israel Goldfarb's
"Shalom Aleichem"
by Rabbi Henry D. Michelman, Chairman
American Society for Jewish Music

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​Now Available
(Included with Membership)
​Musica Judaica Vol. XXI

Musica Judaica (Volume 21)

Included in this volume is Edwin Seroussi’s seminal article on Sephardic Liturgical Music in Southeastern Europe at the Turn of the 20th Century; an article on David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!; an interesting article about the New Contexts and New Audiences for Pyyutim; memorial articles about André Hajdu and Amnon Shiloah, including a complete list of his publications.   

​Musica Judaica is Included as a part of membership dues in the American Society for Jewish Music for 2016-17.  

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Membership for 2018-19

Your 2016-17 membership dues (Sept. 1, 2017 - Aug. 31, 2018) are an essential part of the funding that allows the American Society for Jewish Music to continue to operate.  Membership dues support the annual Chanukah Concert and our contemporary concert Music in Our Time, among others during the season. The sessions of the Jewish Music Forum, both at home and "On the Road" are also supported by dues from members.  And, importantly, the information and access we provide without charge to the St. Petersburg Score Collection, the Charlie Bernhaut Collection of Jewish and Cantorial Recordings, as well as a host of other activities and services which help keep Jewish music alive. You can join the Society, or to renew your membership online, or download the membership form and mail it in.

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