Vessels Of Healing: Jewish Music for Our Fractured World with Robert Cohen
Past SessionsTuesday, November 26, 2024 • 25 Cheshvan 5785 - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Zoom Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 • 18 Cheshvan 5785 - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Zoom Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 • 11 Cheshvan 5785 - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Zoom Event
Our music connects us: to Jewish time, to Jewish space and place, to each other, and to others!
November 12 – American-Jewish Music and African-American Music: Bridges of Song
November 19 – Israel and the World: A Musical Conversation
November 26 – Hanukkah Lights: Old and New Music for Hanukkah
Robert Cohen has been lecturing on Jewish music and American folk and popular music for
some 30 years, including at the Fifth Avenue New York Public Library, Hebrew College in Boston, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and at other institutions, including last year at B’nai Israel. For some fifteen years, he was one of the most sought-after speakers in the Speakers in the Humanities and Speakers in the Schools programs of the New York Council for the Humanities.
This program is made possible by the generosity of the Edith Black Endowment for Yiddish and Jewish Culture.
$36/members; $50/nonmembers
This is a Zoom event. The lectures will be recorded and available for viewing for those who register for the course.
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