About

Prof. Yossi Maurey holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Chicago.  Since 2008, he has been a faculty member of the department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Hans J. Salter Chair in musicology. Prof. Maurey specializes in medieval sacred music and liturgy in France.

Selected Publications

Yossi Maurey, Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Vol. 35, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming 2021.

Yossi Maurey, The Dominican Mass and Office for the Crown of Thorns.  Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2019.

Yossi Maurey, “A Soldier of Great Prowess in a Motet around 1500.” Acta Musicologica 87/2 (2015): 153-192.

Yossi Maurey, Historia Sancti Gatiani, Episcopi Turonensis. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies LXV/23. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2014.

Yossi Maurey, Medieval Music, Legend, and The Cult of St Martin: The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint.  Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Selected Awards

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2015)

Recipient of the Rector’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and Research (2016)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • The Melo-Dramatic Republic: Song and Opera in 19th-Century France
  • Writing about Music
  • Music in fin-de-siècle France
  • Music, People, the World
  • Ritual, Liturgy, and Additions to the Church Calendar
  • A New (Gregorian) Song in Born
  • Between the Monastery and the City: Monophonic Music in the Middle Ages
  • Notation and Music in the Fifteenth Century
  • Being a Musician in the Renaissance

About

Dr. Dani Schrire is affiliated with two graduate programs. His work is inspired by Folklore theory, studies of everyday culture, actor-network-theory and critical heritage studies, examining reflexively the emergence of Jewish folklore studies in international networks, as well as archives, collections and other ethnorgaphic practices, postcards and walking as a cultural practice. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University (summa cum laude) and studied also at the Humboldt University Berlin. In addition, Dr. Schrire carried out postdoctoral research at Göttingen University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schrire is active in various international networks in folklore studies, European ethnology and Jewish studies and currently he is a member of the board of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore )SIEF).

Selected Publications

2021. “Becoming a Version: The Case of Walter Anderson's Studies of Yiddish Folk-Narratives.” Narrative Culture 8: 129-154. 

2019. “Zionist Folkloristics in the 1940s-1950s, Diasporic Cultures and the Question of Continuity.” Hebrew Studies 60: 197-222.

2016. “Ballads of Strangers: Constructing ‘Ethnographic Moments’ in Jewish Folklore.” In Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography, eds. Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran (Bloomington: Indiana University Press): 322-346.

2010. “Raphael Patai, Jewish Folklore, Comparative Folklorists and American Anthropology.” Journal of Folklore Research 47 (1-2): 7-43.

Teaching

Rumours: Folk-Genre Perspectives and Historical Perspectives

Cultures in Boxes: Ethnography of Collecting and Archives

Everyday Cultures: Routine Adventures

Learning to Walk: Walking in Cultural Context

Approaches to Critical Heritage Studies

The Quest for Jewish Folklore

After Bruno Latour: Studying the Culture of the Moderns

Postcards: Studying the Relics of Modernity