Living Traditions: Women’s Songs in Endangered Jewish Languages
Channel: Jewish Language Project
Date: 2022-11-14

Panel organized by the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project:
Living Traditions: Women’s Songs in Endangered Jewish Languages

Moderator: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Performers: Miléna Kartowski-Aïach, Laura Elkeslassy
Panelists: Judith Cohen, Ruth Davis, Sara Manasseh

To celebrate its groundbreaking online exhibit, "A Millennium of Jewish Women's Voices," the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project presents the second event in its fall series highlighting women’s literature, songs, prayers, and letters across the Jewish Diaspora. This event features archival and contemporary performances of women's songs in Judeo-Arabic (Iraq and Tunisia), Judeo-Amazigh (Morocco), Ladino, and more. Watch the video to hear some of the exhibit's cultural treasures.
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You can see the exhibit at https://www.jewishlanguages.org/women.

Cosponsors: HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project, HUC-JIR Initiative Grant in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Sally Priesand's Ordination, ASF Institute of Jewish Experience, Cambridge University Library Genizah Research Unit, Jewish Arts Collaborative, Jewish Music Institute, Jewish Music Research Centre, JIMENA, Jewish Women's Archive, Lilith Magazine, Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Mother Tongue, Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, UCBerkeley Magnes Museum, Yeshivat Maharat.