Cohen, Judith R.

• Sephardic music, Judeo-Spanish, Ladino, haketia
• Crypto-Jewish musical life in Portugal;
• Women in Sephardic music, women in Crypto-Jewish life;
• Use of music in Spain’s “festivals of three cultures”, demythologizing Judeo-Spanish music (the “flamenco” myth, the “medieval” myth etc);
• Medieval music practice;
• Judeo-Spanish song in non-Jewish pedagogical contexts.

Dr Judith R. Cohen is both a scholar and an active performer and workshop leader of Judeo-Spanish songs, as well as music of the Sephardic diaspora – in the medieval Iberian period, and in the Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and French Canada; as well as in pan-European balladry. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese