The fourth episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Uri Edman. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on 18th-century British Jewish Opera Singers.

Uri Erman is a Kreitman postdoctoral fellow at the History Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His research addresses the links between the performing arts and processes of individuation and identity formation, as refracted through such categories as gender, ethnicity, and class. His first book project, under contract at Oxford University Press, focuses on opera singers, gender and national identity in Britain, 1760-1830. His current research project explores the phenomenon of the relationships between actresses and aristocrats in eighteenth-century Britain.