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Johanna Spector

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What

Johanna Spector was an influential ethnomusicologist whose writings, recordings, and film projects documented the music of little-studied Jewish communities from around the world.

When

23 March 1915

Biography

Johanna Spector is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Johanna Spector was an influential ethnomusicologist whose writings, recordings, and film projects documented the music of little-studied Jewish communities from around the world.

How & why

Johanna Spector was an influential ethnomusicologist whose writings, recordings, and film projects documented the music of little-studied Jewish communities from around the world. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Marsha Bryan Edelman, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Marsha Bryan Edelman

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Johanna Spector was an influential ethnomusicologist whose writings, recordings, and film projects documented the music of little-studied Jewish communities from around the world.

1915

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Marsha Bryan Edelman