The second episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Mark Kligman. We discuss his spiritual and ethnomusicological journey, and explore his scholarship on the music of Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish community and most recently, music among the Orthodox men.

Dr. Mark Kligman is the Inaugural holder of the Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music where he is a Professor of Ethnomusicology, Musicology, and Humanities. He is the Director of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience, and is the former Chair of the Department of Ethnomusicology. He has served on the Faculty Advisory committees of the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.

Professor Kligman specializes in the liturgical traditions of Middle E ...