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Joel E . Rubin

Joel Rubin is Associate Professor (Music/Jewish Studies) and Director of Music Performance in the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. He is also Adjunct Researcher at in the Institute of Musicology and the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City, University of London (2001). He is author of the monograph, "New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras" (2020), co-author of the books “Klezmer-Musik” (1999) and “Jüdische Musiktraditionen” (Jewish Musical Traditions, 2001) and the author of “Mazltov! Jewish-American Wedding Music for Clarinet” (1998). Recent work has appeared in "Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture" (2014) and in Ethnomusicology Forum. Rubin wrote the notes to the CD anthology, Chekhov’s Band: Eastern European Klezmer Music from the EMI Archives 1908-1913 (2015). He is an internationally acclaimed performer of klezmer music and has recorded numerous CDs, most recently The Magid Chronicles (2019). He performs regularly with Veretski Pass and the Joel Rubin Ensemble, and was a founding member of the pioneering klezmer-Yiddish revival group, Brave Old World.
Address: Charlottesville, Virginia
Bünzen, Switzerland
http://joelrubinklezmer.com

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Research paper thumbnail of Joel Rubin. Musiker, Musikethnologe und Pionier der jiddischen Musik (by Alan Bern)

Jüdischer Kulturraum Aargau, Baden u. Zürich, ed. Jacques Picard and Angela Bhend-Schaffner, 2020

Portrait by Dr. Alan Bern

Research paper thumbnail of Between Authenticity and Aestheticization: Musical Responses to the Holocaust

Erzählweisen des Sagbaren und Unsagbaren / Between Commemoration and Amnesia. Formen des Holocaust-Gedenkens in schweizerischen und transnationalen Perspektiven / Forms of Holocaust Remembrance in Swiss and Transnational Perspectives, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of They Danced It, We Played It: Adaptation and revitalization in post-1920s New York klezmer music

Studies in Jewish Civilization 19: “I Will Sing and Make Music”: Jewish Music and Musicians Throughout the Ages, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Alts nemt zikh fun der doyne (Everything comes from the doina). The Romanian-Jewish Doina. A Closer Stylistic Examination

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Jewish Music, City University, London, April 1994, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Klezmer-Forschung in Osteuropa: damals und heute (Klezmer Research in Eastern Europe: Then and Now

Juden und Antisemitismus im östlichen Europa, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of “Like a string of pearls”: Brass instruments in Jewish instrumental klezmer music

Studies in Jazz 58: Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of “Ambivalente Indentitäten: Die amerikanische Klezmer-Bewegung als Reaktion auf Krise and Trauma”

Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland XIII: Traditionelle Musik und Mode(n) – Freie Berichte, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of “Can’t You Play Anything Jewish?” Klezmer-Musik und jüdische Sozialisation im Nachkriegsamerika

Jüdische Literatur und Kultur in Großbritannien und den USA nach 1945, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Heyser Bulgar (The Spirited Bulgar): Compositional process in Jewish-American dance music of the 1910s and 1920s

Jüdische Musik und ihre Musiker im 20. Jahrhundert: Bericht über ein Symposium, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of “Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals”: Die Klarinette in der Klezmer-Musik

Faszination Klarinette, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of “With an open mind and with respect”: Klezmer as a Site of the Jewish Fringe in Germany in the Early 21st Century

Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Klezmer Music A Historical Overview to the Present

Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Jazz

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Badkhn

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Niggun

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of “Aufgeschlossen und respektvoll”: Klezmer als Teil der jüdischen Alternativszene in Deutschland im frühen 21. Jahrhundert

Jüdischer Almanach der Leo Baeck Institute, 2016

This is a translation of the article "With an open mind and with respect" appearing in Dislocated... more This is a translation of the article "With an open mind and with respect" appearing in Dislocated Memories

Research paper thumbnail of Jewish Diaspora

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Szpilman, Bajgelman, and Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish-Jewish Klezmer Family

Research paper thumbnail of “What A Jew Means in This Time”: Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the Shifting Aesthetics in the Contemporary Klezmer Landscape

Proceedings of the 2007 Conney Conference on Jewish Arts. Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, 2007

includes embedded musical links

Research paper thumbnail of Music without Borders in the New Germany: Giora Feidman and the Klezmer-influenced New Old Europe Sound

Ethnomusicology Forum, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Joel Rubin. Musiker, Musikethnologe und Pionier der jiddischen Musik (by Alan Bern)

Jüdischer Kulturraum Aargau, Baden u. Zürich, ed. Jacques Picard and Angela Bhend-Schaffner, 2020

Portrait by Dr. Alan Bern

Research paper thumbnail of Between Authenticity and Aestheticization: Musical Responses to the Holocaust

Erzählweisen des Sagbaren und Unsagbaren / Between Commemoration and Amnesia. Formen des Holocaust-Gedenkens in schweizerischen und transnationalen Perspektiven / Forms of Holocaust Remembrance in Swiss and Transnational Perspectives, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of They Danced It, We Played It: Adaptation and revitalization in post-1920s New York klezmer music

Studies in Jewish Civilization 19: “I Will Sing and Make Music”: Jewish Music and Musicians Throughout the Ages, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Alts nemt zikh fun der doyne (Everything comes from the doina). The Romanian-Jewish Doina. A Closer Stylistic Examination

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Jewish Music, City University, London, April 1994, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Klezmer-Forschung in Osteuropa: damals und heute (Klezmer Research in Eastern Europe: Then and Now

Juden und Antisemitismus im östlichen Europa, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of “Like a string of pearls”: Brass instruments in Jewish instrumental klezmer music

Studies in Jazz 58: Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of “Ambivalente Indentitäten: Die amerikanische Klezmer-Bewegung als Reaktion auf Krise and Trauma”

Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland XIII: Traditionelle Musik und Mode(n) – Freie Berichte, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of “Can’t You Play Anything Jewish?” Klezmer-Musik und jüdische Sozialisation im Nachkriegsamerika

Jüdische Literatur und Kultur in Großbritannien und den USA nach 1945, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Heyser Bulgar (The Spirited Bulgar): Compositional process in Jewish-American dance music of the 1910s and 1920s

Jüdische Musik und ihre Musiker im 20. Jahrhundert: Bericht über ein Symposium, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of “Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals”: Die Klarinette in der Klezmer-Musik

Faszination Klarinette, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of “With an open mind and with respect”: Klezmer as a Site of the Jewish Fringe in Germany in the Early 21st Century

Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Klezmer Music A Historical Overview to the Present

Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Jazz

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Badkhn

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Niggun

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of “Aufgeschlossen und respektvoll”: Klezmer als Teil der jüdischen Alternativszene in Deutschland im frühen 21. Jahrhundert

Jüdischer Almanach der Leo Baeck Institute, 2016

This is a translation of the article "With an open mind and with respect" appearing in Dislocated... more This is a translation of the article "With an open mind and with respect" appearing in Dislocated Memories

Research paper thumbnail of Jewish Diaspora

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Szpilman, Bajgelman, and Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish-Jewish Klezmer Family

Research paper thumbnail of “What A Jew Means in This Time”: Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the Shifting Aesthetics in the Contemporary Klezmer Landscape

Proceedings of the 2007 Conney Conference on Jewish Arts. Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, 2007

includes embedded musical links

Research paper thumbnail of Music without Borders in the New Germany: Giora Feidman and the Klezmer-influenced New Old Europe Sound

Ethnomusicology Forum, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Vollständige Bibliographie, Diskographie und Bildernachweis zum Artikel "Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals": Die Klarinette in der Klezmer-Musik ("In the midst of an ancient ritual": The Clarinet in Klezmer Music

Faszination Klarinette, 2004

Bibliography accompanies article "Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals" in publication Faszination Klar... more Bibliography accompanies article "Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals" in publication Faszination Klarinette

Research paper thumbnail of CD review of “Klezmer: Café Jew Zoo” (Yale Strom) and “Klezmer Suite: Music of Sid Robinovitch.”

Journal of the Society for American Music, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Book review Georg Winkler, Klezmer. Merkmale, Strukturen und Tendenzen eines musikkulturellen Phänomens.

Lied und populäre Kultur, 2004

In English

Research paper thumbnail of Review essay “Music is the Pen of the Soul”: Recent Works on Hasidic and Jewish Instrumental Klezmer Music

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, ed. Mark Slobin

Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of Mark F. DeWitt, Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California
 Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of Jonathan Freedman, Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Journal of Jewish Identities, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of Magdalena Waligorska, Klezmer’s Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany

Research paper thumbnail of CD review of Alexander Kulisiewicz. Ballads and Broadsides. Songs from Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1940-1945

Research paper thumbnail of Book review Walter Salmen, ”... denn die Fiedel macht das Fest”. Jüdische Musikanten und Tänzer vom 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert

Research paper thumbnail of Video review David Kaufman, The New Klezmorim: Voices Inside the Revival of Yiddish Music

Research paper thumbnail of Book review Yaacov Mazor, The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel

Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of AUDIO REVIEWS CROSS-REGIONAL COLLECTIONS (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel)

Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of Jane Mink Rossen and Uri Sharvit, A Fusion of Traditions: Liturgical Music in the Copenhagen Synagogue

Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of Max P. Baumann, Tim Becker and Raphael Woebs, Musik und Kultur im jüdischen Leben der Gegenwart

PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V., 2008

Research paper thumbnail of The Art of the Klezmer: Improvisation and Ornamentation in the Commercial Recordings of New York Clarinettists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras 1922–1929

Ph.D. Dissertation, City, University of London, 2001

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