Walter Zev Feldman (US; dance, historical ethnomusicology)
is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music.
He is the author of Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (1996, revised edition 2024); Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (2016); and From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire (2022). His new book, From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York, will be published in summer 2025.
From 2011 to 2015, Zev researched the Jewish and Roma musical traditions of Moldova. Zev is also a leading scholar of Ashkenazic dance and frequently teaches in Germany, Israel, Canada, and the US.
Zev is currently the Academic Director of the Klezmer Institute and a board member of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae at the University of Münster.
Photo: Judit Niran Frigyesi
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