Jerusalem of Song: A Festive Lecture to Celebrate Jerusalem Day with Dr. Asnat Goldfarb-Arzuan

Classrooms Without Borders welcomes Israeli musical artist, Dr. Asnat Goldfarb-Arzaun. A special and exciting lecture about Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, to mark the anniversary of its liberation.
In this lecture, we will distinguish between songs about Jerusalem written from the time of the establishment of the State of Israel (1948) until the Six-Day War (1967), and those written after the war and the city’s reunification.

We will listen to the city’s anthems: Jerusalem of Gold and Rejoice about Jerusalem (Sisu et Yerushalayim)

We’ll talk about the city’s holy sites (the Western Wall), and we’ll experience through the songs the city’s most influential figures, for example Sir Moses Montefiore.

Dr. Asnat Goldfarb-Arzaun

Dr. Asnat Goldfarb-Arzaun is a Ph.D. graduate from the Music Department at Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel. She specializes in Israeli popular music according to the local culture and the Israeli cultural and musical external affects. More specifically, her dissertation examines Dubi Seltzer’s music, one of the outstanding Israeli composers.

She holds a M.A in music (Her dissertation was about the reciprocal influences between art and popular music between 1956-1977). She graduated her first degree (B.Ed.) as a summa cum laude from the music department at Levinsky College of Education.

Her research interests are varied and she has published articles in popular music in several journals in Hebrew. Goldfarb-Arzuan interviewed for in Kan Tarbut (IBA) radio about the piece “Lament for Yitzhak: A Requiem to a Man of piece” by Dubi Seltzer and broadcasted especially for Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day. She has delivered many academic lectures about these topics in conferences
and academic institutions in Israel. She lectures about the Israeli popular music in seniors’ college and cultural centers around the country. In addition she lectures around USA for JCC and some other cultural activities. Her audiences are mostly seniors, but also high-school pupils. Furthermore, she has an expertise as a music tour-guide, which leads organized tours to famous music festivals in Europe.

She has also published two children’s books in Hebrew. She has developed a special program of studying the recorders (Soprano and Alto) in groups and published two booklets, one for each recorder.