Episode 1: Dr. Lillian Wohl (Pepperdine University, Buenos Aires)

Welcome back to Season 5 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast! This month's episode features Dr. Lillian Wohl. We explore her entrance into academia, her ethnographic investigations of music and memory with the Jewish community in Buenos Aires, and her recent explorations of the life of Jewish composer Jacobo Ficher. Guest Bio: Dr. Lillian M. Wohl is a member of the Área de Investigaciones en Artes del Espectáculo y Judeidad (JADE) at the Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo “Raúl H. Castagnino,” Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). While exploring the performance of racial, ethnic, and religious difference in modern Latin American history with a focus on Jewish belonging, she considers how the cultures of memory and shifting notions of temporality —pasts, presents, and futures—are expressed and negotiated in music. From 2017 to 2019, she was Postdoctoral Fellow in Musicology and Assistant Director of Jewish Music Research with the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at UCLA. She was Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College‒Jewish Institute of Religion, New York City, from 2014 to 2017, and completed a PhD in Music (ethnomusicology) at the University of Chicago. She is currently a researcher at the Instituto de Investigación en Etnomusicología (IIEt), DGEART, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires and Adjunct Professor in History at Pepperdine University Buenos Aires. Sound Clip Citations/Credits: SOUND CLIP #1: Intro and outro music, rosegoldglitch, May 22, 2020, https://freesound.org/people/rosegoldglitch/sounds/519176/ SOUND CLIP #2: León Gieco – “Memoria,” Music video recording session featuring 100 Argentine musical artists commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the AMIA Jewish center attack on July 18, 1994. Premiered on July 4, 2016, organized and produced by Elio Kapszuk, Lito Vitale, Gabriel Scherman, and Virginia Taranto. Directed by Sebastián Orgambide. SOUND CLIP #3: Coro Mordeje Guebirtig, Rehearsal in the ICUF (Idishre Cultur Farband | Federación de Entidades Cullturales Judías de la Argentina, May 5, 2012, Courtesy of Lillian Wohl. SOUND CLIP #4: “Sher Bamate” performed by the Orquesta Kef, Produced by Gastón Mohadeb and Rafael Surijón, Extra Kef Música Judía (2005). SOUND CLIP #5: “En una cima dorada” (canción de Maude), .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OXS2Bgjno SOUND CLIP #6: “Weihen windn.” Both Clips 5 and 6 were composed by Victor Schlichter, performed by Emanuel Hecker (voice) and Vincent Föhlisch (piano), recorded on June 12, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany, with the Lateinamerikanisches Filmfest (Festival de Cine Latinoamericano), the Instituto Cervantes, and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt. From the project: “Para Qué Suene la Música de los Archivos” (Sounding the Musical Archives), directed by Dr. Silvia Glocer, with Yasmin Garfunkel (voz), and Federico Garber (piano), and affiliated with: Área de Investigación en los Artes de Espectáculo y Judeidad (Jewish Performance Studies Research Group), Insituto de Artes de Espectáculo “Dr. Raúl Castagnino,” Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). SOUND CLIP #7: Jacobo Ficher – “Dos piezas hebreas para violín y piano, op. 12: no. 1, ‘Melodía hebrea’ y no. 2, ‘Danza hebrea’” (1928/1969), Performed by Édua Zádory on violín and Gerardo Delgado on piano, A project of the Instituto de Investigación en Etnomusicología (IIET), of the DGEART, Ministerio de Cultura, City of Buenos Aires. SOUND CLIP #8: Jacobo Ficher, “Tres Danzas Hebreas, op. 64: Hora” (1946).