WCGS Book Prize 2021 - Phil Alexander

The WCGS Book Prize recognizes first-time authors whose scholarly work provides a substantial contribution to our understanding of any aspect of German-speaking society.

In this interview, WCGS Director James Skidmore speaks with Phil Alexander, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Reid School of Music, whose book Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City (Oxford University Press), has been shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize for books published in 2021.

To learn more about the WCGS Book Prize, go to wcgs.ca.