Neil W. Levin

This article is about the Jewish music scholar. For the New Jersey Port Authority executive, see Neil David Levin.


Neil W. Levin is a Professor Emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and since 1993 has served as the Artistic Director of the Milken Archive of Jewish Music.[1]

Levin has studied the music of the Jewish experience from historical, musical, and ethnological perspectives. His areas of focus include comparative considerations of eastern and western spheres of Ashkenazi Jewry in terms of their sacred work, secular art, theatrical, and folk music, and the musical creativity and life of American Jewry.[2] As a professor of Jewish music on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York (JTS) since 1982,[3] he has taught graduate courses on the history, development, and repertoire of synagogue music, cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, the music of modern Israel, and music of the Jewish-American experience. He has been a lecturer and presenter at university seminars and academic conferences throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel.[4]

  1. ^ "Milken Archive website". Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. ^ Kozinn, Allan (November 7, 2003). "Tradition, Tradition, Tradition? Not in American Jewish Music". New York Times. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  3. ^ New York Times website
  4. ^ Milken Archive website