Uri Schreter is the Alfred and Isabel Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish History at Queen鈥檚 University. He is an interdisciplinary musicologist, composer, and performer whose work bridges scholarship and creative practice. His research centers on twentieth-century Jewish music and history, with a focus on Yiddish culture and the transnational cultural exchange between the United States and Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University and degrees in history, composition, and musicology from Tel Aviv University. His work has been supported, among others, by the American Musicological Society, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the YIVO Institute, and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, and his writing has appeared in the Journal of Synagogue Music, In Geveb, the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan Bulletin, and Haaretz. Beyond academia, Schreter has collaborated on musical, theatrical, and film projects with artists across Jewish cultural spheres and beyond, including Shane Baker, Anthony Russell, Mike Burstyn, Isabel Frey, and Judy Bressler.
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