ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Fox-Rosen, Benjamin and Isabel Frey. 2024. “Challenging the Theater of Memory: Yiddish Song Beyond Kitsch and Stereotype.” Research Catalogue, December 5, 2024. https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2647393
* Frey, Isabel. 2024. “Musical minhag: Negotiating prayer melodies in a liberal synagogue in Vienna.” Musicologica Austriaca, December 10, 2024. https://www.musau.org/parts/neue-article-page/view/179
* Frey, Isabel, and Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky. 2024. “‘Yiddishists for Palestine’: Diasporism and Solidarity through Twenty-First Century Yiddish Song.” Journal of Jewish Identities 17 (2): 111–42. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jji.2024.a936745
* Frey, Isabel, Marike E. De Boer, Leonie Dronkert, A. Jeannette Pols, Marieke C. Visser, Cees M. P. M. Hertogh, and Marja F. I. A. Depla. 2020. “Between Choice, Necessity, and Comfort: Deciding on Tube Feeding in the Acute Phase After a Severe Stroke.” Qualitative Health Research 30 (7): 1114–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320911370
* Frey, Isabel. 2020. “Anorexia’s Failed Little Sisters: Reflections on Researching Bulimia as a Former Bulimic.” Social Theory & Health 18 (2): 138–51. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-019-00100-5
“Musical Minhag: Negotiating Prayer Melodies in a Liberal Synagogue in Vienna.” Musicologica Austriaca (Gewinnerin des MusAu Best Paper Awards, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, forthcoming Dezember 2024)
“Yiddishists with Palestine: Diasporism and solidarity through 21st-century Yiddish song,” with Rosza Lang/Levitsky, Journal of Jewish Identities (Forthcoming July 2024)
“Between choice, necessity and comfort: Deciding on tube feeding in the acute phase after a severe stroke,” mit Marja Depla et al., Qualitative Health Research 30(7), 1114-24, 2020
“Anorexia’s failed little sisters: Reflections on researching bulimia as a former bulimic.” Social Theory & Health 2(8), 138-53, 2019
BOOK REVIEWS
Frey, Isabel. 2023. “Writing on Water: The Sounds of Jewish Prayer, by Judit Niran Frigyesi: Review.” Music & Minorities 2 (March). https://doi.org/10.52413/mm.2023.18
Frey, Isabel. 2021. “Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City.” Ethnomusicology Forum 31 (2): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2021.2010227
“Writing on Water: The Sounds of Jewish Prayer by Judit Niran Frigyesi,” Music & Minorities, 2023
“Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City by Phil Alexander,” Ethnomusicology Forum, 2022
AUSGEWÄHLTE JOURNALISTISCHE VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN
„Jüdische und Palästinensische Traumata müssen nebeneinander bestehen können.“ Falter.at, 11. November 2023
„Bizvanen di gantse velt vet zayn bafrayt: Mit jiddischer Musik minoritäre Allianzen schaffen.“ Stimme: Zeitschrift der Initiative Minderheiten, 126, Frühling 2023
„Beyond the Theater of Memory: Reflections on Yiddish Singing in the German-speaking World.“ InGeveb: a Journal of Yiddish Studies, 18. Mai 2022
„Feminismus auf Jiddisch.“ Volksstimme Magazin & Blog, 3. März 2023,
„Dead or Alive: Klezmer in Austria.“ Music Moves Europe Travel Awards, 18. Juni 2020
„A Jewish-European manifesto for the 21st century.“ Are We Europe Magazine, Spring Issue 2020
WISSENSCHAFTLICHE KONFERENZBEITRÄGE
“Jewishness on the Margins: Reflecting on positionality in Jewish music research, performance and activism.” International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance World Conference, January 8-15, 2025, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
“Tracing the Yiddish Folksinger: Ethnographic-Biographical Insights from the YIVO Yiddish Folksong Project.” Association for Jewish Studies 56th Annual Convention, December 15–19, 2024, online
“Diasporizing Indigeneity: The Counter-case of Yiddish Folksong.” 2nd Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Indigenous Music and Dance with a Joint Day with the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Minorities, November, 22–25, 2024, Chiayi, Taiwan
Panel: “Excluded Minority Musics and the Archive: Perspectives from Romani and Yiddish Music.” 39th European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, 19-24 September 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
Roundtable: „Decolonizing Ethnomusicology: Institutional Challenges and Approaches within and outside the Academy.“ The Join Meeting of the ICTMD Austria and ICTMD Türkiye. Istanbul, September 12-13, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey
„Ethnomusicology in the crossfire: navigating conflict in ethnomusicological minority research.“ Panelkoordination, 38th ESEM, 19-23. September 2023, Palermo, Italien
„The afterlife of Yiddish folksong and the materiality of the Yiddish voice.“ 47th ICTM World Conference, 13–19. Juli 2023, Legon, Ghana (online)
„Challenging the Theater of Memory: Yiddish Song beyond Kitsch and Stereotype.” AMS-SEM-SMT Annual Meeting, 10–13. November 2022, New Orleans, USA
„Listening in Yiddish: Collaborative listening and valuing practices of Yiddish folksong.“ European Seminar for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, 12–16. September 2021, Graz
„Listening in Yiddish: (Un)learning to Listen to Yiddish Folksongs.“ isaScience, 31. August - 4. September 2022, Reichenau an der Rax
„Minhag: Ethnography of a Musical Canon.“ isaScience, 11-15. August 2021, Reichenau an der Rax
„Negotiating Jewish Sound: Reforming Prayer Melodies in a Reform Community.“ British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, 5–7. Juli 2021 (online)
“Critical pedagogy and the ambivalence of diagnosis.” ATGENDER Spring Conference 2016, 23.. Mai, 2016, Utrecht, Niederlande