Ruth HaCohen

Ruth HaCohen is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Musicology at the Hebrew University (1992) where she has later held various posts, including Head of the School of the Arts and Director of the Buber Society of Fellows. Winner of the Kinkeldey Award by the American Musicological Society, the Polonsky Prize (twice), she was elected as a Corresponding Member to the American Musicological Society in 2017. HaCohen investigates the modes by which music participates in shaping the emotional, religious, social, and political worlds, in a wide swath of periods and genres. Her publications include The Music Libel against the Jews (Kinkeldey, 2011); Composing Power, Singing Freedom: The Interplay of Music and Politics in the West (Hebrew, 2017, with Yaron Ezrahi). Ruth HaCohen has been a distinguished visiting professor in numerous international academic institutions.