Special Concerts: Jews & Music

Discover the ritual performance of Jewish texts at night as well as social change as they relate across Jewish history. This event focuses on three topics: the rise of Kabbalistic nocturnal rituals in the Italian ghettos since the 16th century; the performance of Hebrew poetry in North Africa and the Middle East in the modern era; and the renaissance of piyyut (Hebrew liturgical poetry and song) in Israel from the 1970s to the present. You’ll be ...