University of Leeds musicologist heads a team in receipt of a £1.5 million grant to recover pre-war artworks

More than £1.5 million has been awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to a major project devoted to recovering and performing – and seeking new inspiration from – the lost Jewish music and theatre of pre-war Eastern Europe.

Part of the AHRC’s Care for the Future strand, which aims to generate new understanding of the relationship between the past and the future, Performing the Jewish Archive is led by Stephen Muir, senior lecturer in music at the University of Leeds.

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