CONGREGATION SHA'AR ZAHAV

Friday, November 13, 7:30 p.m. Italian Musical Shabbat Services
No Trespassing: Jewish Nightlife In & Out of the Italian Ghettos
The history of nocturnal Kabbalistic ceremonies in Renaissance Italy,
and their legacy today

This special service features Italian synagogue melodies, and, following services there will be an Italian oneg.

On Saturday, Cantor Sharon Bernstein will be chanting the Torah according to the Italian tradition.

Saturday, November 14: Shabbat lunch program (~Noon - following services)
Music and Synagogue Life: The First 2000 Years
How congregational identities are represented through liturgy & musical performance

Saturday, November 14: Afternoon Workshop (~1:30 pm - following 1st program)
The Politics of Synagogue Ritual
On the incorporation of political themes within ritual, based on case studies drawn from politically-inspired synagogue liturgy in Italy from the Emancipation to Fascism

A multidisciplinary scholar, radio personality and performer, Francesco Spagnolo (Milan, 1968) received a Laurea in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the University of Milan and a PhD in Musicology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a dissertation on Italian Jewish music. The founder of Yuval Italia, The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music (Milan), Francesco has been a host of cultural programs at Radiopopolare and RAI (Italian National Radio) and the anchor of the daily program, Radiotre Suite (RAI). Francesco conducted post-graduate research at the EHESS (Paris), taught philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy) and music, literature, Jewish and Italian studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is now the Director of Research at The Magnes in Berkeley. He is thethe editor of the Italian edition of Imre Toth’s Palimpsest (Rusconi 1998, Bompiani 2003), and of the anthology, Italian Jewish Musical Traditions (jointly issued in 2001 by The Hebrew University and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia). Francesco serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Jewish Identities and maintains Bella e perduta, a weblog on Italian Jewish music and culture.