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.גילה-פלם
Biography GHila Flam was born in Haifa, Israel.Gila Flam 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".פעולתה המוסיקלית של ברכה צפירה בשנות ה-30 וה-40 בארץ ישראל Her Ph.D. thesis (1988, University of California, Los Angeles) was published as a book in 1992. In 1999 she also received a degree in Archival studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Gila Flam, an International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives speaker's profile
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).Gila FlamInstitutions THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT The Jewish National and University Library
She also lectures at various conferences and teaches classes on Yiddish song and music of the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, , and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She also performs songs she researches.
Works 1992: Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45 The book is a pioneering work based on author's interviews with the survivors of the Łódź Ghetto and her research of library and archival materials.A book review by Edwin Seroussi, In: Literary Strategies. Jewish Texts and Contexts, 1996, p. 349 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.Jakub Lang, Nachum Sternheim. Zapomniana legenda muzyki żydowskiej, November 11, 2018 She also authored a number of articles on Israeli popular music and Yiddish song.
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