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Gila Flam

b. 1956

Israeli musicologist

Musicologist Editor Ethnomusicologist
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Born 1956. Gila Flam is an Israeli musicologist, editor and ethnomusicologist.

Gila Flam (born 1956, ) is an Israeli musicologist, ethnomusicologist, educator, and a librarian. Her reseatrch is focused on Jewish music, with an emphasis on the music of Eastern European Jews.

Biography GHila Flam was born in Haifa, Israel. She earned her master's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Musicology, with the thesis "The Musical Activity of Bracha Zefira in the 1930s and 1940s in Palestine". Her Ph.D. thesis (1988, University of California, Los Angeles) was published as a book in 1992.

Her work and positions include the founder of the Ethnomusicology Archives and director of the ethnomusicology department at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (from 1989 to 1992) and director of the music department and sound archive at the National Library of Israel (since 1994). 2018: Gila Flam, Dov Noy, Hobn Mir a Nigndl (We Have a Little Tune). The song of the Yiddish „Troubadour” Nokhem Shternheim A collection of Nachum Shternheim's works, which includes a short biographical notice. She also authored a number of articles on Israeli popular music and Yiddish song.

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Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Dunie Weizman Conservatory of Music, HAIFA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Los Angeles

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Who is Gila Flam?

Israeli musicologist

When was Gila Flam born?

Gila Flam was born on 4 October 1956 in Haifa.

What is Gila Flam's occupation?

Gila Flam is a musicologist, editor and ethnomusicologist.

What nationality is Gila Flam?

Gila Flam is Israeli.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Gila Flam

· Wikidata: Q25490170

· DBpedia: Gila Flam

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