Dr. Gordon Dale, the Inaugural Dr. Jack Gottlieb Scholar in Jewish Music Studies, serves as the Assistant Professor of Jewish Musicology in The Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. Dr. Dale has most recently conducted extensive research in the Hasidic communities of New York and Israel, and has lectured across the United States on topics related to Israeli popular music, and Jewish music and mysticism. His forthcoming book, A Life in Music: Ben Zion Shenker and Hasidic Song in America, which is currently (2025) in publication with the Centre, received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Prize. Dr. Dale is currently the Executive Director of The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, and is a past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Special Interest Group for Jewish Music. He holds a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY, an M.A. from Tufts University, and a B.S. from Northeastern University.
Gordon Dale