2 events found.
Masterclass
Masterclass “Mizrahi Music: The Postvernacular Age!?” with Dr. Diana Matut (Alte Synagoge – Haus der jüdischen Kultur in Essen)
From the margins to mainstream - this is how Mizrahi music has often been described. What reads as a story of revivalist success is, under close scrutiny, rather a story of complete social, linguistic and musical shift into an age … Continued
Masterclass with Dr. Lipika Pelham (Volkswagen Momentum Fellow, Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures): “Deforming and Reforming Identity: Indian-Baghdadi Jewish Resurgence in a Diaspora of Hope”
It was British colonialism that initially drove Baghdadi Jews to move eastwards from Iraq and the wider Mediterranean basin. In India and several Far Eastern satellite spots the community collectively came to be known as ‘Baghdadi’. Their settlement from the … Continued
