An International Symposium, Festive Concert, and Exhibit marking the Centennial of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is being held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
The National Library of Israel Faculty of Humanities Music Department.
The day-long symposium will be held Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 on Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem with an impressive array of musicologists and other speakers. To see the complete schedule of speakers and topics, read below.

Schedule:
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Symposium held at
The Mandell Center for Jewish Studies in Mount Scopus, Room 3001

9:30-11:00: Opening session
Chair and moderator: Prof. Edwin Seroussi,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Israel Bartal Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Jewish National Music”

Prof. James Loeffler
Corcoran Department of History, Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia.
“The Most Musical Nation of the Russian Empire,
Or, How Russian is the History of Jewish Music?”

Dr. Jascha Nemtsov,
School of Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam
“100 Years of New Jewish Music”

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00: Morning session
Resonances of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in Israel and America
Chair and moderator: Prof. Eliyahu Schleifer, Hebrew Union College

Prof. Jehoash Hirschberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“From St. Petersburg to Palestine”

Dr. Rita Flamenboim, Lewinsky College, Tel Aviv
“Joel Engel (1868-1927) – Music for the play Haddibuk by S.An-sky”

Prof. Shay Burstyn, Tel Aviv University
“Like Idelsohn: Some Remarks on Solomon Rosowsky”

Dr. Zecharia Plavin, The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
“Listening to Achron and Saminsky in America: Ruminations”

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:30: Afternoon session and open discussion
Future perspectives in the study of Jewish art music, nationalism and modernity
Dr. Gila Flam, Music Department, the National Library of Israel
“Collections of the St. Petersburg Society of Jewish Folk Music at the National Library of Israel”

Dr. Leonid Butir, Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Dr. Assaf Shelleg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Exhibit and Concert
Weintraub Hall, The National Library of Israel, Givat Ram Campus
20:00-22:00: Works by Joseph Achron, Joel Engel, Alexander Krein, Moshe
Milner and Lazare Saminski performed by Sivan Rotem, soprano; Gilad Hildesheim,
violin; Jascha Nemtsov, piano

Institutions:
Jewish Music Research Centre
Leonid Nevzlin Center for the Research of Russian and Eastern European Jewry
Pro Musica Hebraica

Academic committee:
Prof. Edwin Seroussi, director, JMRC, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. James Loeffler, University of Virginia
Dr. Jascha Nemtsov, Berlin
Prof. Carl Posy, Academic Director, The National Library of Israel
Dr. Gila Flam, Director, Department of Music, The National Library of Israel
Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Leonid Nevzlin Center for the Research of Russian
and Eastern European Jewry
Dr. Leonid Butir, Associated Researcher, JMRC

Local Arrangements and Production:
Prof. Edwin Seroussi, director, JMRC, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Gila Flam, Director, Department of Music, The National Library of Israel
Ms. Sari Salis, Administrative Assistant, JMRC