Jewish Musicians and Jewish Music-Making in the Polish Lands
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About this Event
A One-day Conference to Launch Polin: Studies in Polish-JewryVol. 32: ‘Jewish Musicians and Jewish Music-Making in the Polish Lands’
‘POLIN Vol. 32’ is published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation/Liverpool University Press. It will be available to purchase at the conference at a 30% discount.
Conference tickets Include tea, coffee and a kosher lunch
PROGRAMME9.30am Registration
10.00am Welcome
H.E. Arkady Rzegocki, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland
Mr Vivian Wineman, President of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
Sir Ben Helfgott, Chairman of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
10.15am Session 1: General introduction to the topic and the volume and discussion of changes in Jewish cantorial practice in the nineteenth and twentieth century
Benjamin Matis, spiritual leader of the Agudath Achim Congregation, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA, in discussion with Antony Polonsky
Cantor Matis will also perform some examples of cantorial music
10.45am Coffee break
11.15am Session 2: Jews in Polish Popular Music
Chair: François Guesnet, University College London (UCL), UK
Popular music in the interwar period: Polish, Jewish, shared
Tamara Sztyma-Knaniecka, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish
Jews, Warsaw, Poland
The Jews in the Band: Anders Army’s Special Troupes
Beth Holmgren, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
12.45pm Lunch (provided)
2.00pm Session 3: Yiddish Folk Song and Klezmer
Chair: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, USA/UCL, UK
Gimpel’s Theatre, Lemberg: The sounds of a popular Yiddish theatre preserved on gramophone records 1904 – 1910
Michael Aylward, Maidstone, Kent, UK
Klezmer for all occasions. The consumption of ‘Jewish music’ in
contemporary Poland.
Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen, Germany
3.30pm Tea break
4.00pm Concert
Polish¬-Jewish songs from the interwar period
Katy Carr, London
