Tracing Jewish Liturgical Music Recordings from the Bohemian Lands: Between Family Memory and Cultural Heritage
Public support
Provider
Czech Science Foundation
Programme
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Call for proposals
SGA0202600006
Main participants
Univerzita Karlova / Fakulta humanitních studií
Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
26-21893N
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Tracing Jewish Liturgical Music Recordings from the Bohemian Lands: Between Family Memory and Cultural Heritage
Annotation in Czech
This project explores recordings of Jewish liturgical music produced during the 20th century, especially those featuring professional prayer leaders (cantors or hazzanim) who lived in the Bohemian Lands. It aims to create an annotated discography of a corpus that includes commercial 78rpm records, archival broadcast material, and rare research and private recordings. The project situates the sound sources within living networks of cultural memory-making and heritagisation. Combining methods of historical ethnomusicology and multi-sited ethnography of archives, it traces them across transnational/diasporic networks of memory institutions and private collections in the Czech Republic, Israel, the USA, and Central-Eastern Europe, analysing their cultural biographies as intertwined with cantors‘ biographies and discourses of preservation and heritagisation. Bridging ethnomusicology, Jewish studies, and critical heritage studies, the project uncovers the narratives of loss, survival, and transmission embedded in the recordings, illuminating the musical diversity of the Bohemian Lands.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
OECD FORD - main branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
OECD FORD - secondary branch
60404 - Folklore studies
OECD FORD - another secondary branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
CEP - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2026
Realization period - end
Dec 31, 2029
Project status
Z - Beginning multi-year project
Latest support payment
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Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP26-GA0-GY-R
Data delivery date
May 6, 2026
Finance
Total approved costs
3,742 thou. CZK
Public financial support
3,742 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK