From the Editors ~ Jonathan M. Hess and Laura S. Lieber

From the President ~ Pamela S. Nadell

From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy

“Overtures” ~

Music, the “Jew” of Jewish Studies: Updated Readers’ Digest ~ Edwin Seroussi

To Hear the World through Jewish Ears ~ Judah M. Cohen

“The Sound of Music” ~

The Birth and Demise of Vocal Communities ~ Ruth HaCohen

Brass Bands, Jewish Youth, and the Sonorities of a Global Perspective ~ Maureen Jackson

How to Get out of Here: Sounding Silence in the Jewish Cabaretesque ~ Philip V. Bohlman

Listening Contrapuntally; or What Happened When I Went Bach to the Archives ~ Amy Lynn Wlodarski

The Trouble with Jewish Musical Genres: The Orquesta Kef in the Americas ~ Lillian M. Wohl

Singing a New Song ~ Joshua Jacobson

“Sounds of a Nation” ~

When Josef (Tal) Laughed; Notes on Musical (Mis)representations ~ Assaf Shelleg

From “Ha-tikvah” to KISS; or, The Sounds of a Jewish Nation ~ Miryam Segal

An Issue in Hebrew Poetic Rhythm: A Cognitive-Structuralist Approach ~ Reuven Tsur

Words, Melodies, Hands, and Feet: Musical Sounds of a Kerala Jewish Women's Dance ~ Barbara C. Johnson

Sound and Imagined Border Transgressions in Israel/Palestine ~ Michael Figueroa

Remembering Sound ~ Alanna E. Cooper

“Surround Sound” ~

Sensory History, Deep Listening, and Field Recording ~ Kim Haines-Eitzen

The Siren’s Song: Sound, Conflict, and the Politics of Public Space in Tel Aviv ~ Abigail Wood

Some Things I Heard at the Yeshiva ~ Jonathan Boyarin