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Since launching in 2020, the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience has initiated numerous academic projects that further our mission of increasing knowledge of the Jewish experience in America.
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The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience works with academics, performers, and our local community to develop an array of exciting initiatives accessible to the general public and experts alike.
As a university-based Center, we are committed to providing opportunities for students to explore and participate in Jewish music in a multiplicity of ways.
The music of American Jewish experience has its first permanent dedicated academic home with the establishment of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience. It unites the academic and the artistic, showcasing scholars, artists and educators to share their sounds and stories.
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Author Talk with Jeremiah Lockwood: Golden Ages

Jews, Music, and Modernity in Buenos Aires

Part 1 – Call Him Signor Isaac: Ivan Abramson’s Italian Grand Opera Company

Part 5 – Why Promote Italian Opera Via the Mame-loshn?

Part 2 – The One and Only Oscar Hammerstein: Bringing Downtown Uptown

Part 3 – The Russian Bear: Mikhail Medvedieff’s Geographic, Linguistic, and Theater Crossover

Part 4 – Bringing Everyone Together: The Zuro Opera Company

Multilingual Jewish Prayer Throughout History: Performance and Analysis

Meet the Musician: Composer Charles Fox

Meet the Musicians: Noreen Green & Andrea Clearfield

Part 4 – Kol Nidre’s Many Spaces: From the Synagogue to the Archive

Part 3 – Religious Dramaturgies

Part 2 – The Moment and Momentum Of Kol Nidre: A Multi-Layered Analysis of Yom Kippur’s Grand Overture

Part 1 – Kol Nidre’s Synchronizations: The Intersection of Music, Text and Performance

Jewish Prayer in Many Languages: High Holidays

Jewish Prayer in Many Languages: Shabbat, Part 2

Jewish Prayer in Many Languages: Shabbat, Part 1

Ketubba de la Ley: Sephardic Vernacular Liturgy for Shabuot from former Ottoman Lands and Beyond

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Daniel Kahn

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Gerard Edery

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Dr. Galeet Dardashti

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Bruce Adolphe

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring David Amram

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Michael Hunter Ochs

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Sheila Silver

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Benjie Ellen Schiller

Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater

Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Shulamit Ran

Experiencing Jewish Music in New York: A Virtual Tour

Jewish Music Masterclass Featuring Inna Faliks

Mizrahi Sacred Songs (Piyutim)—From Pulpit to Pop Chart I & II

Jewish Music Masterclass featuring Julia Adolphe

Behind the Scenes of the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof