Jewish Heritage Lecture Series: Weinstein/Minkoff Lecture

Harvard's Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s ethnomusicological fieldwork on the music and ritual of the Ethiopian Jews, carried out in their rural villages on the cusp of the Ethiopian revolution and before the community’s immigration to Israel, produced surprising new insights into their history. The lecture explores from the distance of more than thirty-five years that research process, its conclusions, and implications of recent research for her findings.