[Geraldine Auerbach]

The International Forum for Jewish Music Studies (IFJMS) was set up (in June 2020) to facilitate connection between scholars, musicians and librarians dealing with Jewish music.

IFJMS therefore invites Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations to register here at the Jewish Music Group on the Humanities Commons website https://hcommons.org/groups/jewish-music-1255310724/ and encourage your members to do so too.

This site offers a platform for all and includes discussion topics, events listings, publishing of materials and much more. Thus, all your activities, that you post on the site, will immediately also reach members of other Jewish Music Studies groups and individuals – facilitating connections and avoiding working in isolation.

Once registered, please introduce yourself and your group to everyone through this ‘discussion’ topic.  We look forward to hearing from you and working together for the benefit of all.

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[Uri Schreter]

Hi all,

lovely seeing many of you at the meeting yesterday.

As requested, here’s a description of our organization, the JSMSG:

The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group (JSMSG) is a study group of the American Musicological Society (AMS). Our core activities revolve around the annual AMS conference, where we organize an academic panel about Jewish studies and music, and deliver our annual awards for best publications in the field. Over the last few years, we’ve increased our online presence, through our new website and through social media (details below). We’ve launched a blog on our website, as well as a series of Zoom webinars. Additionally, we strive to publicize information about Jewish music scholarship from around the world, and share information about conferences, CFPs, and lectures through our social media accounts.

If you would like us to publicize your events, please reach out through social media, or write to me, at: urischreter@g.harvard.edu.

Important: Please follow us on social media (this really helps), and share our posts if you think they would interest your own followers:

Twitter: @JewishMusStudy                 Instagram: @jewish_mus_study

our website: https://jewishstudies.ams-net.org/

[Phil Alexander]

IFJMS welcomes the European Institute of Jewish Musics (EIJM) Paris.

Based in Paris, the European Institute of Jewish Musics (IEMJ) was created in 2006 by the French Judaism Foundation, the Yuval association and the Henriette Halphen Foundation. Under the auspices of the musicologist Hervé Roten, the institute’s goals are the preservation and dissemination of the Jewish musical heritage for a wide public.

Please visit EIJM’s page on the IFJMS website or contact Hervé at: hroten@iemj.org

[Phil Alexander]

IFJMS welcomes The American Society for Jewish Music.

The American Society for Jewish Music traces its roots back to the Society for Jewish Folk Music of St. Petersburg, Russia (1908-18).   After the Bolshevik Revolution, members of the group published their compositions under the imprint of JUWAL, Publication Society for Jewish Music (later called JIBNEH) with offices in Tel Aviv and Berlin.  Among these members were three composer-musicologists,  Joseph Achron, Solomon Rosowsky and Lazare Saminsky, who emigrated to the United States, where, along with Abraham W. Binder and others, they founded Mailamm (Makhon Eretz Yisraeli L’-Mada’ey ha-Musika), an  organization with chapters in several American cities (1932-39).  From 1939 to 1962, this was refashioned by  A.W. Binder as the Jewish Music Forum, which in turn became the Jewish Liturgical Society of America (1963-74).  In 1974, the latter group was reorganized as the American Society for Jewish Music, Inc., under the direction of its first president, Albert Weisser.

Please visit ASJM’s page on the IFJMS website or contact society president Michael Leavitt at: michael@jewishmusic-asjm.org.

[Phil Alexander]

IFJMS welcomes The American Society for Jewish Music.

The American Society for Jewish Music traces its roots back to the Society for Jewish Folk Music of St. Petersburg, Russia (1908-18).   After the Bolshevik Revolution, members of the group published their compositions under the imprint of JUWAL, Publication Society for Jewish Music (later called JIBNEH) with offices in Tel Aviv and Berlin.  Among these members were three composer-musicologists,  Joseph Achron, Solomon Rosowsky and Lazare Saminsky, who emigrated to the United States, where, along with Abraham W. Binder and others, they founded Mailamm (Makhon Eretz Yisraeli L’-Mada’ey ha-Musika), an  organization with chapters in several American cities (1932-39).  From 1939 to 1962, this was refashioned by  A.W. Binder as the Jewish Music Forum, which in turn became the Jewish Liturgical Society of America (1963-74).  In 1974, the latter group was reorganized as the American Society for Jewish Music, Inc., under the direction of its first president, Albert Weisser.

Please visit ASJM’s page on the IFJMS website or contact society president Michael Leavitt at: michael@jewishmusic-asjm.org.

[Geraldine Auerbach]

Join us for the IFJMS Jewish Music Networks – Meeting #2:
Monday 14 June 2021   

09:00 Pacific time /  12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK  / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel
Zoom Log-in https://hcommons.org/groups/jewish-music-1255310724/events/conversation-on-zoom/ 

Share event on Facebook here https://fb.me/e/2hgjWjaD9

IFJMS Jewish Music Networks connects diverse Jewish Music Studies groups – for this meeting emanating from Russia, Germany, Israel, the UK and USA – sharing thoughts and plans, developing collaborations and common interests and growing ideas, and considering an overarching project with (hopefully a physical meeting somewhere) in 2023 under the heading ‘Migration and Transformation in Jewish Music’
Presenters:
1. Gordon Dale. (Academic Director) on the American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum
2. Guila Shamilli – (Senior researcher…State Institute For Art Studies Russian Ministry of Culture) on her Moscow conference on Jewish arts in May 2021
3. Alan Bern, (Director of Yiddish Summer Weimar) on current activity.
4. Rosa Abrams on her initiative the Jewish Musics Analysis Group.
5. Assaf Shelleg on Yuval the journal of the Jewish Music Research Center, which he is co-editing with Prof. Edwin Seroussi.
6. Alex Knapp, (Chairman) on the International Ernest Bloch Society and its Study Group

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[Geraldine Auerbach]

IFJMS Networks meeting 14 June 2021

Thank you all for coming to the networks meeting today – those who came to speak and those who came to listen and join in the discussion. All the presentations were very interesting. Many ideas popped up for finding ways of sharing zoom conversations and presentations of the various groups. As Gordon Dale of the ASJM Forum said, although the hope is to open up to physical meetings, the international benefits of Zoom are well appreciated and will be maintained. They have meeting being planned throughout this and next year.

IFJMS could facilitate such interconnections by offering the weekly COZ slot on a Tuesday at 9.00an Pacific time to you – our network of groups. These sessions last between 90 and 120 minutes and the times were chosen to accommodate people in the USA the UK, Europe and Israel) Eg once a month the meeting could be hosted by Gordon Dale and the ASJM Forum, and once a month by Alan Bern to present interviews with current artists.

Maybe the Milken Archive will continue to have a monthly or bi-monthly slots interviewing an American composer. Many of you were interested to hear about Rosa Abrahams new Jewish Musics Analysis Group and its potential and perhaps a quarterly slot would be good for this. (This would be a good way to connect so that we don’t overload and duplicate – but rather showcase and present the best of what is happening in the groups on a connected or joint channel.

Please comment if you think this will be a good idea and if you would like to participate or if you have other solutions.

The idea for a conference was also cooking up with Alan and Assaf and Alex on analysis of current musics. More will be revealed as this develops.

Assaf explained the excellent development in the online Yuval Journal of the Hebrew University, and that they are ready to receive papers for publication https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/yuval  https://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il.

Guila Shamilli spoke of her hopes of connecting further with Jewish music scholarship after her very successful first conference in Moscow (and online) last month.

I am glad that most of you have already joined the IFJMS  ‘Jewish Music Group’ on Humanities commons. This way you will automatically receive any posted material on any of the groups, and be kept informed of all activities and opportunities.  Membership is free. On the Jewish Music Group site, you may post your biography and your Jewish music interests – and it will be good if you can do so. (If you have not already done so, please register at  https://jewishmusic.hcommons.org/  then join the ‘Jewish Music Group’).

All your emails are  below for you to correspond with each other directly as requested.  We hope to post this session on the IFJMS COZ playlist, on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6GVi1YcCPg&list=PL4LimEnDNhrSVEQtEiEvgJiMU_dBMP_l5 in due course. Please keep us posted of your deliberations and how we at International Forum for Jewish Music Studies can help and support what you are doing.

Best wishes

Geraldine with Mark Kligman and Martha Stellmacher

The speakers and listeners were:Alexander Knapp knappalexander1@gmail.com; giulashamilli@gmail.com; alan.bern@othermusicacademy.eu; rabrahams@ursinus.edu; Dale, Gordon gdale@huc.edu; Assaf Shelleg shelleg@outlook.com; Eliyahu Schleifer eli.schleifer@gmail.com; Jennifer Jankel Jennifer@jankel.com; Jeff Janeczko (jjaneczko@mff.org); Judith R Cohen judithcq@gmail.com; Judy Pinnolis jpinnolis@berklee.edu; Kligman, Mark mkligman@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu; martha.stellmacher@slub-dresden.de; Judith Cohen judithc@yorku.ca; Minouche Kaftel minouchekaftel@yahoo.com; Michael lea

1. Gordon Dale. Academic Director, American Society for Jewish Music’s ‘Jewish Music Forum’
2. Alan Bern, Director of Yiddish Summer Weimar on current activity.
3. Rosa Abrahams Assistant professor of Music Ursinus on her initiative the Jewish Musics Analysis Group.
4. Assaf Shelleg Hebrew University Jerusalem on Yuval the journal of the Jewish Music Research Center, which he is co-editing with Prof. Edwin Seroussi.
5. Giula Shamilli – Senior Researcher…State Institute for Art Studies, Russian Ministry of Culture) on her Moscow conference on Jewish arts in May 2021
6. Alexander Knapp, Chairman, International Ernest Bloch Society on IEBS and Bloch Study Group

 

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