Fordham – NYPL Lecture Series: Miranda Crowdus

The Liturgical Music of the Romaniote Jews: From Antiquity to the Present Day

In this talk, Miranda Crowdus will highlight her work in creating the first comprehensive history and analysis of the distinctive musical-liturgical traditions of the Romaniote Jews. By examining the musical traditions through the frame of Jewish ethnography and Jewish liturgy, Crowdus traces these long-lived practices from their little known origins during the Roman period (146 BCE–330 CE) to how, following World War II, the musical and social aspects were translated and transformed in their new American context.

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