Winners of the 2022 AMS-JSMSG Awards

Joel E. Rubin
University of Berne,
Switzerland
Michael A. Figueroa
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Christopher Silver
McGill University

The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the AMS is pleased to announce its annual publication awards to the following authors:

Joel E. Rubin
New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras (Boydell and Brewer, 2020).

Michael A. Figueroa
‘Behind the Sounds’: Matti Caspi, Shlomo Gronich, and the Politics of Genre in Israel,” Journal of Musicology 38, no. 4 (Fall 2021), 401–418.

Christopher Silver
The Sounds of Nationalism: Music, Moroccanism, and the Making of Samy Elmaghribi,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 1 (February 2020): 23-47.

These awards were presented at the 2022 joint conference of the AMS/SEM/SMT in New Orleans. The JSMSG Board wishes to thank the volunteer members of the study group who served as readers for this year’s competitive group of submissions. Previous award winners can be viewed here.

JSMSG Board Chair Mark Kligman presents the 2022 awards at AMS/SEM/SMT 2022 NOLA.Joel E. Rubin zoomed in from Switzerland to accept his award, held up here by JSMSG Board member, Uri Schreter.

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