AMS 2026

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Past Events

2025: AMS Minneapolis – November 6, 2025, “Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s)”

2024: AMS Chicago – November 14, 2024, “‘We will dance again’: Amplifying Jewish Joy in the Face of Contemporary Trauma”

2023: AMS-SMT Denver – November 9, 2023, “Anti-Semitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from the Field”

2022: AMS-SEM-SMT New Orleans – November 10, 2022, “The American Southern Jewish Experience through Music in New Orleans”

2020: Webinar, “Jewish and Black Musical Affinities,” Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Jeffrey Melnick.

2019: AMS Boston – 31 Oct 2019, “Music and Hasidism in Contemporary America”

2018: AMS San Antonio – 1 Nov 2018, “Othered Within the Other: Marginalized Voices in Jewish Studies”

2017: AMS Rochester – 9 Nov 2017, “Jewish Studies, Music, and Biography”

2016: AMS Vancouver – 3 Nov 2016, “Songs of the Jewish Enlightenment: Vocal Music in the Circle of Sarah Levy (1761-1854)”

2015: AMS Louisville – 12 Nov 2015, “The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music: Musical Theatre at Girls’ Jewish Summer Camps in Maine”

2014: AMS Milwaukee – 6 Nov 2014, “New Approaches to Introducing Jewish Music”

2013: AMS Pittsburgh 7 Nov 2013, “Two Witnesses, One Kaddish: Reflections on the Pisar-Bernstein Revival (2009)”

2012: AMS New Orleans – 1 Nov 2012, “Historiographies of jewish Music Research”

2011: AMS San Francisco – 10 Nov 2011, “Interpreting Terezín: Works, Contexts, Sources”