Gila Flam
Gila Flam is an Israeli musicologist, ethnomusicologist, educator, and a librarian. Her reseatrch is focused on Jewish music, with an emphasis on the music of Eastern European Jews.
Biography
GHila Flam was born in Haifa, Israel.She earned her master's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Musicology, with the thesis "The Musical Activity of Bracha Zefira in the 1930s and 1940s in Palestine". Her Ph.D. thesis was published as a book in 1992. In 1999 she also received a degree in Archival studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her work and positions include the founder of the Ethnomusicology Archives and director of the ethnomusicology department at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and director of the music department and sound archive at the National Library of Israel.
She also lectures at various conferences and teaches classes on Yiddish song and music of the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University,, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She also performs songs she researches.
Works
- 1992:
- :The book is a pioneering work based on author's interviews with the survivors of the Łódź Ghetto and her research of library and archival materials.
- 2018: Gila Flam, Dov Noy, Hobn Mir a Nigndl. The song of the Yiddish „Troubadour” Nokhem Shternheim
- :A collection of Nachum Shternheim's works, which includes a short biographical notice.