OXFORD SCHOOL OF RARE JEWISH LANGUAGES
Yiddish Musics: The 20th and 21st Century (Third Part)
Applications are now open for the third part of the OSRJL Jewish Music Class for Trinity Term 2025
Online course via Zoom on Mondays 18:15 to 19:15 (UK time)
Tutor: Dr Diana Matut
This course will continue to explore the development of Yiddish musics mainly after Second World War.
The entire spectrum of Yiddish (mainly vocal) music making will be considered and organized according to topics such as: nostalgia, belonging and uprootedness; building the canon of Yiddish song performances; contemporary song cultures and cultural translations; Yiddish film music and music in Yiddish films; Yiddish activism; inner-Hasidic developments (women’s, religious and children’s songs); new Yiddish opera and theatre song – to name but a few.
This year-long course will also include the possibility for participant observation while exploring strategies of Yiddish song writing and/or song translations from or into Yiddish. It will explore, question and debate the “post” of “post vernacular” and “postmodernity”.
We will also welcome at least one guest per term. Invited are song writers, musicians and Yiddish activists.
Knowledge of Yiddish is helpful, but not required to take this course.
Please find the application form here
Please submit your completed application as a Word document to the OCHJS Academic Administrator, Ms Priscilla Lange, by email at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk no later than Wednesday 23rd April 2025 at 12 noon (Oxford time). (You can check time-zone comparisons on sites such as this one).
Individuals whose applications are successful will be notified on Thursday 24th April 2025. The first day of class for this course will be Monday, 28th April 2025 (Week 1 of Trinity Term).
If you have any queries, please contact Ms Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk