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Gila Flam
BornOctober 4, 1956
Haifa, Israel
Occupation(s)Director of the Music Department and National Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel.
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., 1988)
ThesisSinging for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto (1988)
Academic work
DisciplineMusicology, Ethnomusicology
Main interestsJewish and Israeli music, Yiddish song, Music in the Holocaust

Gila Flam[edit]

Gila Flam (born October 4, 1956) is an Israeli musicologist and ethnomusicologist. Her research interests include Yiddish folk song with emphasis on the Holocaust period. Since 1994 she serves as the director of the Music Department and National Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel.[1]

Biography[edit]

Gila Flam was born in Haifa, Israel. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received her B.A. and M.A. in Musicology, and substitute studies in Hebrew Literature, Jewish Folklore, Jewish Modern History and Theater. Her M.A. thesis (1982) was on the role of the Yemenite singer Beracha Zefira and her contribution to Israeli popular and art music during the 1930's in Erets-Yisrael. She dealt with aspects of women as culture agents and the early use of traditional oriental Jewish music in the newly invented Hebrew music.[2][3]

Flam continued her studies at UCLA Music Department at the Ethnomusicology Program.  Her dissertation on the Songs of the Lodz Ghetto (1988) was later published under the title “Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1945” by the University of Illinois Press (1992).[4] The songs were collected from survivors, transcribed and analyzed. Without her work these songs would have been forgotten.[5]

Career[edit]

Flam worked at the USHMM in Washington, D.C. (1989-1992). While in Washington, she produces a recording of children's songs from the Holocaust "Remember the Children" in which she revived several songs that were never recorded or performed after the Holocaust from written sources.[6]

In 1992, she returned to Israel and taught at several colleges and Universities. Since 1994 she is the director of the Music Department and the National Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel.[7]

As the director of the Music Library, she expanded and developed the depository of Israeli composers' personal archives as well as produced and collected sound recordings of traditional music as well as commercial recordings. The Music Department of the Library and the Music Sound Archives under her directorship and curatorial work, expanded in such a way that they hold the largest, richest, catalogued and well-preserved collection of Jewish and Israeli music in the world.[8][9]

Flam is an expert in the historical recorded collections of the library especially the Wax Cylinder and Metal Disks recordings of Robert Lachmann, Edith Gerson-Kiwi, Leo Levi and other collectors and scholars who worked in the field in the early 20th century.[10] Flam is teaching at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance.[11]

Selected publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Flam Gila (1992), Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1945, University of Illinois Press.                                                                                                  
  • Flam Gila (2000), “Hobn mir a nigndl”: The Songs of the Yiddish “Troubadour” Nachum Shternheim, The Jewish Music Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem in collaboration Dov Noy.                                              

Articles[edit]

  • Composers of Yiddish Folksongs between the Wars” In Judische Musik und ihre Musiker im 20. Jahrhundert, Berecht uber ein Symposium (Mainz, 1998) edited by Wolfgang Birtel, Joseph Dorfman, Chirstoph-Hellmut Mahling, (Mainz, ARE edition 2006): 351-360.
  • Eastern European Jewish Music Collections at the Music Department of the Jewish National and University Library: Cataloging and Conservations Strategies” in Klezmer, Klassik, jiddisches Lied, ed. by Groezinger Karl E. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004):167-192.
  • Research, Archives and Performance: The Case of Yiddish Song Today” In  Jewish Studies, (2006): 87-97.
  • Over Fifty years of Recordings at the National Sound Archies, Jerusalem" in A Hearing Heart Duchan 16 (2005): 35-43.
  • Popular Music in Israel: in: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 6: the Middle East, edited by Virginia Danielson, Scott Marcus and Dwight Reynolds (New York: Routledge, 2002):1069-1075.
  • Beregovski and his Contribution to the study of the Yiddish folksong in: Jewish Studies (1999): 34-39.
  • The Role of Singing in the Ghettos: Between Entertainment and Witnessing” in Robert M. Shapiro, edited, Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts, (Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House1999):141-153.
  • Singing Yiddish Songs in Israel in: The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today, Issue 2 volume 1 of Musical Performance-A International Journal, edited by Amnon Shiloah, (1999): 1-9.
  • The Meaning of Contrafact in Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust in Jewish Studies (1994): 111-118.  
  • Das kulturelle Leben im Getto Lodz: in: Doron Kiesel and Cilly Kugelmann edited  Wer zum Leben, wer zum Tod...(Frankfurt/Main, Campus Verlag 1992): 77-85.
  • From Ghetto Song to Song of Commemoration in: Pastoral Music, Volume 15:5 (1991): 18-22.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Music Collection and Sound Archive". www.nli.org.il. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  2. ^ "Beracha Zephira - A Case Study of Acculturation in Israeli Song | Jewish Music Research Centre". www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  3. ^ Danielson, Virginia; Reynolds, Dwight; Marcus, Scott (2017-09-25). The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-54417-7.
  4. ^ Flam, Gila. "UI Press | Gila Flam | Singing for Survival". www.press.uillinois.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  5. ^ Mendelsohn, Ezra (1997-01-30). Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535468-3.
  6. ^ "Remember the children songs for and by children of the Holocaust. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  7. ^ "Gila Flam | Jewish Music Research Centre". www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  8. ^ "Record disc-overy". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  9. ^ "Counting the Digits". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  10. ^ "The Enigmatic Researcher of the Magic of Music". The Librarians. 2019-09-16. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  11. ^ "Dr. Gila Flam". The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2021-12-06.

External links[edit]

Heartstrings: Music of the Holocaust, Online Exhibitions

Creating a Jewish-Israeli Music Archive (video), February 7, 2021

Yiddish Songs from the Ghettos as a Mirror of Jewish Culture during the Holocaust (video)

The Enigmatic Researcher of the Magic of Music (Blog Post)

The Composer Paul Ben-Chaim and his Journey from Germany to the Middle East (Blog Post)

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