George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Mar. 1 2009
2009 Conney Conference
Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness
April 22-24, 2009
This year’s conference is now over. Thanks very much to all the speakers and attendees! Videos of the presentations are available here.
We are currently putting the finishing touches on the schedule for this year’s Conney Conference on Jewish Arts. We will be welcoming a broad range of presentations that address the arts from multiple perspectives and include papers on the visual arts, dance, Yiddish cultural practice, Klezmer and more. The conference will look at numerous aspects of Jewish identity across disciplines in the broadest sense and will include a number of workshops and performances as well. We hope to see you as we investigate the question of Jewish Identity in the arts.
Henry Sapoznik is an award winning author, record and radio producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. A pioneering scholar and performer of klezmer music, Sapoznik is credited with the late 20th century revival of klezmer. He founded both the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (1982) and KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program (1985). He is the recipient of the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism (2002) for the 10 part series “The Yiddish Radio project” and the 2000 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Scholarship for his book “Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World”. His CD anthologies “You Ain’t Talkin’ To Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music” (2005) and “People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938″ (2008) were nominated for multiple Grammy awards.
