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Mark Kligman
Mark
Kligman, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Jewish Musicology at HebrewUnion
College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York where he teaches in the School
of Sacred Music. He was educated at the University of Michigan and New York
University; he earned his doctorate at NYU in 1997. He specializes in the
liturgical traditions of Middle Eastern Jewish communities. Dr. Kligman has
published several articles on the liturgy of Syrian Jews. His work also extends
to historical trends in the liturgical music of Ashkenazic and Sephardic
traditions; his entry "Music in Judaism" was recently published in The
Encyclopedia of Judaism (2000). He was the editor of the Jewish terms in Worship
Music: a Concise Dictionary (2000), a dictionary covering liturgical music. In
the Spring of 2001 he was a Research Fellow & Visiting Professor at the
Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued research
on contemporary trends in Jewish music. An article on this topic appears in the
American Jewish Yearbook 2001. He lives with is wife and daughter in Highland
Park, NJ.
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