Episode notes
The first episode of the Sounding Jewish podcast features Dr. Gordon Dale. We discuss his initial entrance into the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on the music of Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker and with the Modzitz Hasidic community.
Dr. Gordon Dale is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Musicology and the Inaugural Dr. Jack Gottlieb, z”l, Scholar in Jewish Music Studies at the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Dr. Dale has conducted extensive research in the Hasidic communities of New York and Israel, and has lectured across the United States on topics related to Israeli popular music, and Jewish music and mysticism. Dr. Dale is currently the Executive Director of The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, and is a past president of the ...