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University of California Press
Feb 18 2026

JAMS Author Interviews: Ruthie Abeliovich, Daniela Smolov Levy, Joanne Cormac, and Benjamin Ory

The Journal of the American Musicological Society is pleased to present the second installment in its series of author video interviews. In this installment, JAMS editor Jake Johnson interviews contributors to the journal's Summer 2025 (78.2) issue. We invite you to watch the video interviews below, and to complement your viewing, we have made the Summer 2025 issue—the issue in which these articles appear—free to read online for a limited time.


Interview with Ruthie Abeliovich and Daniela Smolov Levy, coauthors of Cosmopolitan Connections and Immigrant Audiences: Reconsidering the Yiddish Operetta


 

An image of the cover for issue 78.2 of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society"

We are cross-posting this video series in collaboration with the American Musicological Society (AMS). The videos can also be viewed on AMS's "Field Notes" site offering resources and information for music studies professionals and on AMS's YouTube channel.  

We are pleased to publish JAMS in partnership with the American Musicological Society. AMS members receive free online access to JAMS. If you are interested in becoming a member, information about AMS membership can be found on the Society's website

You can also receive free access to JAMS if your library subscribes to the journal. If your library is not currently a subscriber, please ask your librarian to subscribe. We also offer library subscriptions to JAMS as part of our UC Press Music Subject Collection, which packages all of our music journals together for one low subscription price. You may want to consider asking your librarian to subscribe to the full collection

We also offer individual subscriptions to JAMS via the journal's website, as well as the opportunity to purchase print copies of individual issues, including issue 78.2 in which these authors' articles appear.