College Edition

Through comparative listening, the Stories of Music: College Edition modules support the integration of Jewish music topics and history into a wide-range of university-level courses. Jewish Music in Uganda: Context, Tradition, and the Sound of Psalm 150 examines the musical and cultural life of the Abayudaya Jewish community, focusing on their distinctive Psalm-singing practices in Luganda and Hebrew. The module explores how music functions as a vehicle for resilience, religious identity, and cross-cultural exchange in this Jewish community of East Africa.

Through comparative listening, the Stories of Music: College Edition modules support the integration of Jewish music topics and history into a wide-range of university-level courses. Bridging Traditions: Schubert’s Hebrew Psalm and Sulzer’s Synagogue Reforms examines the intersection of Jewish liturgical music and the European choral tradition in early nineteenth-century Vienna, focusing on questions of reform, musical assimilation, and cross-cultural exchange.